Exploring OWL-DL Primitives for Automatic Ontology Alignment Tools Parametrization

The increasing number of ontologies and the data that they encapsulate make the process of ontology alignment an essential component of the Semantic Web by providing its inter operability. In recent years, several tools have been developed in order to produce alignments that reflect the correspondence degree between two ontologies to be aligned. The quality of alignments provided by these tools is closely related to certain parameters that govern their treatment. In this paper, we propose a new approach to automatically adjust the parameters of an ontology alignment method. This approach is based on the exploitation of OWL-DL primitives. It tends to establish in a dynamic way the weights assigned to different modules of an alignment method. The experiments show a marked improvement over a static and frozen previous settings.