Semantic Metrics

In the context of the Semantic Web, many ontology-related operations, e.g. ontology ranking, segmentation, alignment, articulation, reuse, evaluation, can reduced to one fundamental operation: computing the similarity and/or dissimilarity among ontological entities, and in some cases among ontologies themselves. In this paper, we review standard metrics for computing distance measures and we propose a series of semantic metrics. We give a formal account of semantic metrics drawn from a variety of research disciplines, and enrich them with semantics based on standard Description Logic constructs. We argue that concept-based metrics can be aggregated to produce numeric distances at ontology-level and we speculate on the usability of our ideas in potential areas.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: EKAW
• Authors: Bo Hu, Yannis Kalfoglou, Harith Alani, David Dupplaw, Paul H. Lewis, Nigel Shadbolt
• Keywords: EKAW 2006, Information Management, Semantic Metrics, Similarity And/or Dissimilarity, Standard Metrics