Most of the existing work on ontology matching is focused at the schema level, while, at the time being, instance-level matching techniques are only marginally considered. In this paper, we address the problem of ontology instance matching by providing a reference definition and by discussing key requirements and possible application fields. The architectural design of the HMatch 2.0 ontology matching suite is also presented as a concrete example of an ontology instance matcher.
Index Terms:
ontology instance matching
Citation:
S. Castano, A. Ferrara, D. Lorusso, S. Montanelli, "On the Ontology Instance Matching Problem," dexa, pp.180-184, 2008 19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Application, 2008