OMIE: Ontology Mapping within an Interactive and Extensible environment
Résumé
The increase number of on-line accessible biological data sources has involved a growth of the number and the size of ontologies. This makes it increasingly valuable to map ontologies each other to determine which of their concepts are semantically related. Nowadays, developed tools are often semi-automatic and require the help of experts. Determining semantic relations between concepts is a difficult task, and the problem is still open. Several methods have been proposed in the literature. The existing tools for mapping concepts usually combine several methods, called matchers. In this paper, we propose a tool called OMIE (Ontology Mapping within an Interactive and Extensible environment) which uses and combines several matchers. OMIE is extensible, i.e. matchers could be added or inhibited, and is interactive, i.e. experts could validate or invalidate mappings as well as choose between mapping specific concepts or mapping the entire ontologies.