Making Ontologies Talk: Knowledge Interoperability in the Semantic Web

Francky Trichet (1) , Monika Lanzenberger , Jennifer Sampson , Horst Kargl , Manuel Wimmer , Colm Conroy , Declan O'Sullivan (2) , David Lewis (3) , Rob Brennan , José Ángel Ramos-Gargantilla , Asunción Gómez-Pérez , Frederic Furst (4) , Francky Trichet (1) , Jérôme Euzenat (5) , Axel Polleres , Fran Scharffe , Konstantinos Kotis

1 LINA - Laboratoire d'Informatique de Nantes Atlantique
2 Trinity College Dublin
3 Food Research Division
4 MIS - Modélisation, Information et Systèmes - UR UPJV 4290
5 EXMO - Computer mediated exchange of structured knowledge

Ontologies offer shared vocabularies that are key to agent cooperation and knowledge systems integration as well as fundamental to the Semantic Web. As the number of ontologies increases, so does the need for new tools and techniques to establish agreement between different knowledge representatuions. Six essays based on papers accepted for the First Workshop on Ontology Alignment and Visualization (OnAV 2008) exemplify some of the ways researchers are extending the state of the art in algorithms that can establish correspondences between different but related onologies.

Mots clés: knowledge engineering; ontologies; ontology mapping; semantic web

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Web

Francky Trichet, Monika Lanzenberger, Jennifer Sampson, Horst Kargl, Manuel Wimmer, et al.. Making Ontologies Talk: Knowledge Interoperability in the Semantic Web. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2008, 23 (6), pp.72-85. ⟨10.1109/MIS.2008.108⟩. ⟨hal-00421803⟩