Exploiting WordNet as Background Knowledge

A lot of alignment systems providing mappings between the concepts of two ontologies rely on an additional source, called background knowledge, represented most of the time by a third ontology. The objective is to complement others current matching techniques. In this paper, we present the difficulties encountered when using WordNet as background knowledge and we show how the TaxoMap system we implemented can avoid those difficulties.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: SEMWEB
• Authors: Chantal Reynaud, Brigitte Safar
• Keywords: Background Knowledge, Current Matching Techniques, SEMWEB 2007, Systems Providing Mappings