LYAM++ is a fully automatic ontology matching system based on the use of external sources. Our approach applies a novel orchestration of the components of the matching workflow. We present our results on anatomy, conference large biomedical and Multifarm tracks of OAEI2016. Presentation of the System In spite of the considerable advance that has been made in the field of ontology matching recently, many questions remain open [1]. The current work addresses the challenge of using background knowledge with a focus on aligning cross-lingual ontologies, i.e., ontologies defined in different natural languages [2]. Indeed, considering multilingual and cross-lingual information is becoming more and more important, in view particularly of the growing number of web content-creating non-English users and the clear demand of cross-language interoperability. In the context of the web of data, it is important to propose procedures for linking vocabularies across natural languages, in order to foster the creation of a veritable global information network. The use of different natural languages in the concepts and relations labeling process is becoming an important source of ontology heterogeneity. The methods that have been proposed to deal with it most commonly rely on automatic translation of labels to a single target language [3,4] or apply machine learning techniques [2]. However, machine translation tolerates low precision levels and machine learning methods require large training corpus that is rarely available in an ontology matching scenario. An inherent problem of translation is that there is often a lack of exact one-to-one correspondence between the terms in different natural languages.
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We present LYAM++ (Yet Another Matcher - Light)[
process. Another original feature of our approach is the choice of orchestration of
the matching workflow. The novel workflow orchestration provides better results
compared to the classical one. We refer the reader to the results reported in [
The workflow of LYAM++ is given in Fig 1. The overall process consists of
four main components: a terminological matcher, a mapping selection module
and, finally, a structural matcher. One of the original contributions of this work
is the choice of orchestration of these components. Indeed, the places of the
mapping selection module and the structural matcher are reversed in the
existing OM tools [
The terminological matching module, the second contribution described in this paper, acts on the one hand as a preprocessing component and, on the other hand – as a light-weight terminological matcher between labels. We start by splitting the elements of each ontology in three groups: labels of classes, labels of object properties and labels of data object properties (in colors blue, black and red in the figure), since these groups of elements are to be aligned separately. A standard preprocessing procedure is applied on these sets of labels, comprising character normalization, stop-words filtering, tokenization and lemmatization.
For the cross-lingual ontology matching, at first every token of a given label
s in in the source ontology S is enriched by related terms and synonyms from
BabelNet and all of these terms are represented in the language lT (language of
the target ontology), which makes these terms comparable to the tokens of the
labels in the target ontology T . A simple similarity evaluation by the help of the
Jaccard coefficient selects the term in each set of related terms corresponding to
a given token from s that has the highest score with respect to every token in
each label of T . This helps to restitute the label s in the language lT . Finally,
the labels in each group of S and T , seen as sets of tokens, are compared by
using the Soft TFIDF similarity measure [
The three remaining components are standard OM modules [
The adaptation made for the evaluation is in the preprocessing step. LYAM++
uses (1) Uberon [
Links to the System and to the Set of Provided Alignments Last year, the system was not available online because it depends heavily on the use of BabelNet 3.0 version, which is under a non-free licence. In this year, we used old version of BabelNet 2.0 which is under free license.
The alignments produced by LYAM++ for this year’s can be found under the following link: http://www.lirmm.fr/benellefi/Alignements.rar. LYAM++ can be found under the following link: http://www.lirmm.fr/benellefi/Lyam+ +.rar 2
We have evaluated our approach on data coming from the ontology alignment evaluation initiative (OAEI)2 and particularly anatomy, conference, large biomedical and multifarm.
Anatomy This track aims to discovering alignments between a human anatomy ontology, part of the NCI Thesaurus3 and a mouse anatomy ontology. This track is considered as a large-scale matching task because the input ontologies are of a large size and very rich semantically. Table 1 presents the results obtained by LYAM++ on this year’s Conference This track contains 16 ontologies from the scientific publication field. Table 2 presents the results obtained by LYAM++ on this year’s
3 https://ncit.nci.nih.gov/ncitbrowser/ Large biomedical ontologies This track aims at aligning three large biomedical ontologies, namely FMA, SNOMED and the NCI Thesaurus. Table 3 presents the results obtained by LYAM++ on this year’s
Small FMA-NCI MultiFarm is a benchmark designed for evaluating cross-lingual ontology matching systems. Multifarm data consist of a set of 7 ontologies originally coming from the Conference benchmark of OAEI, translated into 8 languages. Two evaluation tasks are defined: task 1 consists in matching two different ontologies given in different languages, while task 2 aims to align different language versions of one single ontology.
Table 4 presents the results obtained by LYAM++ on this year’s Multifarm evaluation campaign. What we see is the average F-measure value for all language-pairs without any threshold on the confidence measure. The value in the parenthesis corresponds to the average F-measure value for the generated alignments only (the pairs of languages that the system handles). 3
In this paper, we present the over view of the LYAM++ system and our results on the OAEI2016 tracks . In this year, our goal was to participate on monolingual ontology matching scenarios. We used Babelnet 2.0 version instead of Babelnet 3.0 version due to the licenses problems. Subjects of ongoing and future work are (1) testing and evaluating different sources of external knowledge, (2) applying semantic mappings selection methods to improve the results, (3) adaptation of the approach to the large scale ontology matching scenarios.