Geo-ontology enrichment through reverse engineering

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Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL international conference on Advances in geographic information systems table of contents

Irvine, California

POSTER SESSION: Poster session table of contents

Article No. 49

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-1-60558-323-5

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Guillermo Nudelman Hess	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Cirano Iochpe	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

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: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
: ESRI
Microsoft : Microsoft

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ABSTRACT

The current ontology matchers usually expect the ontologies to be described with the same semantic granularity. In this work we address the issue of enriching a geographic ontology by inferring topological from its instances. Moreover, we present a method for (re)constructing the ontology taxonomy by combining some reverse engineering techniques and the comparison with a reference ontology. This allows the homogenization of the semantic granularity of the ontologies to be matched in a later step. Our proposal goes a little bit further and also enables the complete (re)definition of the ontology concepts in case of only the instances are available, by extracting all the needed information from the instances' OWL tags.

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