Authors: Fernanda Baiao, Kate Revoredo, Natalia Fonseca Padilha
Tags: 2012, conceptual modeling
Ontology alignment is the process of finding corresponding entities with the same intended meaning in different ontologies. In scenarios where an ontology conceptually describes the contents of a data repository, this provides valuable information for the purpose of semantic data integration which, in turn, is a fundamental issue for improving business intelligence. A basic, yet unsolved, issue in semantic data integration is how to ensure that only data related to the same real-world entity is merged. This requires that each concept is precisely defined into the ontology. From another perspective, foundational ontologies describe very general concepts independent of a particular domain, and precisely define concept meta-properties so as to make the semantics of each concept in the ontology explicit. In this paper, we discuss how the use of foundational ontology can improve the precision of the ontology alignment, and illustrate some examples using the UFO foundational ontology.Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-33999-8_21
