Matching object catalogues

A catalogue holds information about a set of objects, typically classified using terms taken from a given thesaurus, and described with the help of a set of attributes. Matching a pair of catalogues means to find a relationship between the terms of their thesauri and a relationship between their attributes. This paper first introduces a matching approach, based on the notion of similarity, that applies to both thesauri and attribute matching. It then describes matchingsbasedonmutualinformationandintroducesvariations that explore certain heuristics. Finally, it discusses experimental results that evaluate the precision of the matchings and that measure the influence of the heuristics.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: ISSE
• Authors: Luiz André P. Paes Leme, Daniela F. Brauner, Karin Koogan Breitman, Marco A. Casanova, Alexandre Gazola
• Keywords: Information, ISSE 2008, Security Privacy, Thesauri, Thesaurus