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        <article-title>OntoAligner Meets Knowledge Graph Embedding Aligners</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <string-name>Hamed Babaei Giglou</string-name>
          <email>hamed.babaei@tib.eu</email>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <string-name>Jennifer D'Souza</string-name>
          <email>jennifer.dsouza@tib.eu</email>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <string-name>Sören Auer</string-name>
          <email>auer@tib.eu</email>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <string-name>Mahsa Sanaei</string-name>
          <email>mahsasanaei97@ms.tabrizu.ac.ir</email>
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          <institution>TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology</institution>
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          <addr-line>Hannover</addr-line>
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          <country country="DE">Germany</country>
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          <institution>University of Tabriz</institution>
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          <addr-line>Tabriz</addr-line>
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          <country country="IR">Iran</country>
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        <year>2025</year>
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      <abstract>
        <p>Ontology Alignment (OA) is essential for enabling semantic interoperability across heterogeneous knowledge systems. While recent advances have focused on large language models (LLMs) for capturing contextual semantics, this work revisits the underexplored potential of Knowledge Graph Embedding (KGE) models, which ofer scalable, structure-aware representations well-suited to ontology-based tasks. Despite their efectiveness in link prediction, KGE methods remain underutilized in OA, with most prior work focusing narrowly on a few models. To address this gap, we reformulate OA as a link prediction problem over merged ontologies represented as RDF-style triples and develop a modular framework-integrated into the OntoAligner library-that supports 17 diverse KGE models. The system learns embeddings from a combined ontology and aligns entities by computing cosine similarity between their representations. We evaluate our approach using standard metrics across seven benchmark datasets spanning five domains: Anatomy, Biodiversity, Circular Economy, Material Science and Engineering, and Biomedical Machine Learning. Two key findings emerge: first, KGE models like ConvE and TransF consistently produce high-precision alignments, outperforming traditional systems in structure-rich and multi-relational domains; second, while their recall is moderate, this conservatism makes KGEs well-suited for scenarios demanding high-confidence mappings. Unlike LLM-based methods that excel at contextual reasoning, KGEs directly preserve and exploit ontology structure, ofering a complementary and computationally eficient strategy. These results highlight the promise of embedding-based OA and open pathways for further work on hybrid models and adaptive strategies.</p>
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        <kwd>eol&gt;OntoAligner</kwd>
        <kwd>Knowledge Graph Embeddings</kwd>
        <kwd>Ontology Alignment</kwd>
        <kwd>Ontology</kwd>
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    <sec id="sec-1">
      <title>1. Introduction</title>
      <p>
        Ontologies serve as formal, structured representations of knowledge within a specific domain. By
axiomatizing concepts, relations, and properties, ontologies provide semantic richness that facilitates
knowledge sharing, reasoning, and interoperability. Over the past decades, they have become a
fundamental component of the Semantic Web, powering knowledge-intensive applications across
domains ranging from E-commerce to Biomedical and Material Science. With the rise of artificial
intelligence (AI), particularly in natural language processing (NLP), ontologies have increasingly been
integrated into symbolic AI systems. The advent of large-scale transformer models, such as BERT [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>
        ]
and its successors, has accelerated this trend. These models have enabled new methods for semantic
understanding, prompting researchers to revisit ontology-based approaches through the lens of deep
learning. One such area that has gained substantial attention is Ontology Alignment (OA) [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2">2</xref>
        ] — the task
of identifying correspondences between semantically equivalent entities across diferent ontologies.
      </p>
      <p>
        Modern OA techniques predominantly leverage machine learning and embedding-based strategies to
compute alignments. Among these, large language model (LLM) techniques have become especially
popular due to their ability to encode contextual semantics [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3 ref4 ref5 ref6">3, 4, 5, 6</xref>
        ]. Despite this momentum, an
important class of embedding methods — Knowledge Graph Embeddings (KGEs) [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref7">7</xref>
        ] — remains relatively
underexplored in the context of OA. KGEs are techniques that convert the entities and relations in a
knowledge graph into continuous low-dimensional vectors, allowing the graph’s semantic and structural
information to be represented numerically. This transformation ofers several advantages: it simplifies
large and complex graphs, enables the use of machine learning algorithms, enhances search and
recommendation systems by capturing semantic similarity, and helps uncover hidden patterns and
relationships that are not easily detectable in the original symbolic form.
      </p>
      <p>
        KGEs, such as TransE [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref8">8</xref>
        ], DistMult [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref9">9</xref>
        ], and ComplEx [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref10">10</xref>
        ], are typically designed for single knowledge
graphs, focusing on link prediction or taxonomy enrichment tasks within a single ontology. As a
result, they are often perceived as less directly applicable to the cross-ontology matching objective
of OA. However, advancements such as RDF2Vec [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref11">11</xref>
        ] and OWL2Vec [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref12">12</xref>
        ] have demonstrated the
potential of adapting KGE techniques for ontology-related tasks, including alignment, as is evident with
OWL2VecOA [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref13">13</xref>
        ]. These models learn embeddings from RDF graphs or OWL ontologies by generating
graph-based sequences, allowing them to capture semantic structure in a way that is more compatible
with OA needs. Still, the majority of current work either focuses narrowly on a few KGE-based models
or fails to harness the full spectrum of available KGE techniques in the alignment setting. This gap
highlights an important research opportunity: to systematically explore and adapt KGE models for OA,
evaluate their comparative performance, and investigate hybrid models that integrate the strengths of both
LLMs and KGEs. By doing so, this work aims to advance the state of OA through KGE methodologies
that are both semantically grounded and computationally scalable.
      </p>
      <p>
        OA is the process of finding correspondences between semantically related entities from two
ontologies. Formally, given two ontologies  = (, , ) and  = (, , ), where
, , and  denote sets of concepts, relations, and instances respectively, an alignment  is a set of
mappings  = ⟨, , ,  ⟩ such that  ∈ ,  ∈ ,  ∈ {=, ⊆ , ⊇ , ≡ , ≈} is a semantic relation, and
 ∈ [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">0, 1</xref>
        ] represents the confidence score. A similarity function sim(, ) :  ×  → [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">0, 1</xref>
        ]
is typically used to compute this score, and mappings are included in the alignment if sim(, ) ≥  ,
where  is a predefined similarity threshold.
      </p>
      <p>
        Additionally, an ontology can be represented as a set of triples in the form (ℎ, , ), where ℎ denotes
the head entity,  the relation, and  the tail entity. In this work, to enable KGE models to learn
meaningful representations from both  and , we combined their respective triples to
construct a unified triple repository referred to as the triple factory  . This integration serves as a
foundational step toward a systematic framework for analyzing and exploring the behavior of KGEs
within the context of OA. By formulating OA as a link prediction task over the merged ontologies, we
implemented and evaluated a collection of KGE models specifically tailored for alignment objectives.
This formulation allows the models to jointly learn latent representations of entities and relations
across both ontologies, thereby capturing structural and semantic correspondences more efectively.
The learned representations were subsequently utilized for equivalence-based alignment, enabling the
identification of semantically equivalent concepts across ontologies. Moreover, to make the collection
entirely available for researchers and practitioners, we integrated our systematic approach to the
OntoAligner [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref14">14</xref>
        ] – a comprehensive and modular Python library dedicated to OA.
      </p>
      <p>The remainder of this paper is organized as follows: section 2 reviews related work; section 3
details our proposed methodology with integration with the OntoAligner library; section 4 presents
the experimental results and analysis; and section 5 concludes the paper with discussions and future
research directions.</p>
    </sec>
    <sec id="sec-2">
      <title>2. Related Works</title>
      <p>
        Early work on graph alignment employs a graph embedding algorithm, and studies have shown that
the great capability of the KGE method is efective for aligning structurally similar ontologies and is
more robust against alignment noise when dealing with graphs of diferent sizes and architectures [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref15">15</xref>
        ].
      </p>
      <p>
        [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref16">16</xref>
        ] proposed a multi-view embedding model for biomedical OA using TransE and ConvE,
demonstrating the utility of combining structural and semantic perspectives. Similarly, [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref17">17</xref>
        ] conducted a
systematic evaluation of KGEs for gene-disease association prediction, benchmarking models including
TransD, TransE, TransH, DistMult, HolE, and ComplEx. More recent approaches have explored deeper
models and alignment-specific enhancements. [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref18">18</xref>
        ] introduced a security-aware, deep model-based
entity alignment method incorporating MTransE, TransD, RotatE, ConvE, AlignE, AttrE, and GCN-a,
tailored for edge-specific knowledge graphs. [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref19">19</xref>
        ] tackled cross-lingual OA by leveraging both structural
and semantic similarity via node2vec, GCN, RGCN, and TransE.
      </p>
      <p>
        Contextual embeddings have also gained traction. [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref20">20</xref>
        ] combined traditional KGEs such as TransE,
TransR, and DistMult with semantic embeddings like Word2Vec, Onto2Vec, OPA2Vec, and OWL2Vec
to predict subsumption relations. Likewise, [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref21">21</xref>
        ] presented LaKERMap, a contextualized structural
self-supervised learning approach for ontology matching that employed TransE for inference tasks.
Additionally, [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref22">22</xref>
        ] used TransE, RotatE, and CompGCN for deep active alignment of knowledge graph
entities and schemata. [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref23">23</xref>
        ] introduced an assertion and alignment correction framework using RDF2Vec,
TransE, TransR, TransH, DistMult, and ComplEx.
      </p>
      <p>
        Additional contributions include A-LIOn by [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref24">24</xref>
        ], which used TransR to align ontologies through
inconsistency-based negative sampling, and the AMD matcher [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref25">25</xref>
        ], which also adopted TransR for
largescale alignment scenarios. [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref26">26</xref>
        ] examined context-enriched models for aligning biomedical vocabularies
using a range of methods, including TransE, TransR, RESCAL, DistMult, HolE, ComplEx, and ConvKB.
In the scholarly knowledge domain, [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref27">27</xref>
        ] refined the SemOpenAlex concept ontology using TransE,
DistMult, and QuatE with SKOS-based constraints. [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref28">28</xref>
        ] introduced NELLIE, an open data linking system
leveraging ComplEx embeddings for scalable entity linking. Finally, [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref29">29</xref>
        ] investigated fine-grained
semantics in knowledge graph relations, further underscoring the breadth of KGE applications in
ontology understanding and alignment.
      </p>
    </sec>
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      <title>3. Methodology</title>
      <p>The OntoAligner framework is composed of three key components: the parser, encoder, and aligner.
This modular design enables OntoAligner to serve as a hub for integrating diverse OA approaches.
Building upon these design principles, we developed a framework that adheres to these foundational
components, as illustrated in Figure 1. In the following sections, we first introduce the overall alignment
strategy, followed by an overview of the collection of KGE models integrated within this strategy.</p>
      <sec id="sec-3-1">
        <title>3.1. Graph Embedding Aligner</title>
        <p>The architecture of the Graph Embedding Aligner, as illustrated in Figure 1, follows a modular three-stage
pipeline: Parser, Encoder, and Aligner. This design reflects the core components implemented in the
code and provides a precise data flow from input ontologies to alignment predictions.
1) Parser. The pipeline begins with parsing the source  and target  ontologies. Each
ontology is decomposed into RDF-style metadata, consisting of Subject, Predicate, and Object, each
annotated with its respective IRI and label. Moreover, a class membership metadata — indicating
whether each entity plays a subject or object role in a class assertion is also attained. In the end, each
ontology is represented by its own metadata.
2) Encoder. In the encoding stage, the extracted triples from both ontologies are unified into a single
triplet representation: a set of (ℎ, , ) and (ℎ, , ) triples are obtained, where ℎ, , and 
are represented using natural language text rather than IRIs. Next, as a triplet representation, we unified
both triples to form a triple factory   := (ℎ, , ) ∪ (ℎ, , ). One of the key advantages
of this unified representation is that it enables the embedding model to automatically identify and learn
shared structural and semantic patterns across both ontologies with high precision, thereby enhancing
the quality and efectiveness of the alignment process.
3) Aligner. The aligner component consists of two submodules. 1) Representation Learning, where
a PyKEEN model embeds and trains each entity into a continuous vector space where semantically</p>
        <p>Metadata
Subject (IRI, Label)
Predicate (IRI, Label)
Object (IRI, Label)
is-subject-class
is-object-class</p>
        <p>Encoder</p>
        <p>Aligner</p>
        <p>Triplet
Representation</p>
        <p>Representation Learning</p>
        <p>KEnmobweledddignegGMroadpehl LRowepDreimseenntsaiotionnal</p>
        <p>PyKEEN</p>
        <p>Inference
 Cosine Similarity</p>
        <p>Postprocessor
or structurally similar entities are positioned closely together. 2) Inference, which uses the learned
embeddings to calculate cosine similarity between every ⟨ ∈ ,  ∈ ⟩ pair for ranking,
and postprocessing.</p>
        <p>
          • Representation Learning. In this submodule, a KGE model is trained using a link prediction
objective. The process begins with negative sampling, which augments the dataset by generating
plausible but incorrect triples. This step helps the model learn to distinguish between valid
and invalid relationships. The KGE model is then fine-tuned, and its resulting low-dimensional
embeddings are used for alignment. Although negative sampling may seem to introduce noise into
the OA process, it plays a critical role in improving the embedding model’s ability to distinguish
between valid and invalid relations. This results in more robust and generalizable representations,
which ultimately lead to more accurate alignment across heterogeneous ontologies. We utilize
PyKEEN [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref30">30</xref>
          ] to support each stage of representation learning, as it ofers a comprehensive suite
of KGE models and tools.
• Inference. In inference, once embeddings are learned, the embeddings ∀ ∈  and
∀ ∈  are extracted. Let E = [e(1), e , . . . , e()] ∈ R×  denote the matrix of
(2)
L2-normalized embeddings for entities from the source ontology , and let E =
[e(1), e , . . . , e()] ∈ R×  represent the normalized embeddings from the target ontology
(2)
, where  is the embedding dimension. Each vector is normalized as ‖e‖2 = 1. The
similarity between entities is computed using cosine similarity. The similarity matrix S ∈ R× 
is defined as S = E · E⊤. Where, each entry  corresponds to the cosine similarity
between the -th source and -th target entities:  = cos( ) = e() · e() = ∑︀=1 (,) · (,).
In the final step, for each source entity , the target entity with the highest similarity score is
selected: * = arg max  . The alignment result is then given by: A = ⟨(), (* ),  ⟩. Where
 := * is the confidence score of the alignment.
        </p>
        <p>
          Once the alignment pairs are extracted, a post-processing step is applied to refine the results.
First, a one-to-one cardinality constraint is enforced to ensure that each  ∈  aligns with
at most one  ∈ , and vice versa. Then, a confidence-based filtering is performed by
applying a similarity threshold  ≥  , where  ∈ [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">0, 1</xref>
          ] is a predefined cutof. Alignment pairs
with scores below this threshold are discarded to retain only the most confident and unambiguous
matches.
        </p>
      </sec>
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        <title>3.2. Knowledge Graph Embedding Collections</title>
        <p>Based on a review of related works, we identified the 10 most frequently used KGE models that have
been applied to OA from various perspectives—whether as standalone baseline models or as part of
hybrid frameworks. These models consistently appear across numerous OA studies and knowledge
engineering benchmarks. In addition to these top 10, we incorporated seven additional models that,
while not as widely adopted in OA specifically, have shown strong performance and versatility in
KGE Model
ConvE is a deep convolutional embedding model for link prediction that uses 2D convolutions
over reshaped entity and relation embeddings to capture complex interaction patterns
between them.</p>
        <p>TransD (Translation on Dynamic Mapping Matrices) is a knowledge graph embedding model
designed for link prediction and triple classification. It improves upon earlier
translationbased models like TransE, TransH, and TransR by dynamically constructing relation-specific
projection matrices using both entity and relation projection vectors.</p>
        <p>TransE is a simple and scalable model for embedding knowledge graphs in low-dimensional
vector spaces. It represents relationships as vector translations between head and tail entity
embeddings. For a valid triple (ℎ, , ), TransE enforces that ℎ +  ≈ . The model is easy to
train, has few parameters, and can handle very large datasets.</p>
        <p>TransF is a flexible translation-based model for knowledge graph embedding. It improves on
previous methods by allowing more adaptable translations to better handle complex relation
types, like one-to-many or symmetric relations. Without increasing model complexity,
TransF introduces a new scoring function and shows strong performance improvements in
experiments.</p>
        <p>TransH improves knowledge graph embeddings by projecting entities onto relation-specific
hyperplanes before translation. This allows it to handle complex relation types (e.g.,
one-tomany) better than TransE, while maintaining similar eficiency and scalability.</p>
        <p>TransR enhances knowledge graph embeddings by projecting entities into relation-specific
spaces before applying translations, allowing better modeling of diverse relational semantics
than TransE and TransH.</p>
        <p>DistMult is a simple bilinear embedding model for knowledge graphs that represents entities
and relations as vectors, using matrix multiplication to capture relational semantics. It
outperforms previous models like TransE in link prediction and enables efective logical rule
mining.</p>
        <p>ComplEx is a link prediction model that uses complex-valued embeddings to efectively
capture both symmetric and antisymmetric relations. It relies on the Hermitian dot product,
ofering a simple yet powerful and scalable approach that outperforms existing models on
standard benchmarks.</p>
        <p>HolE (Holographic Embeddings) is a knowledge graph embedding model that uses circular
correlation to create compositional vector representations of entities and relations. It
eficiently captures complex interactions while remaining scalable and easy to train.</p>
        <p>RotatE is a knowledge graph embedding model that represents relations as rotations in
complex space, enabling it to capture patterns like symmetry, inversion, and composition. It
uses a novel self-adversarial negative sampling for eficient training and outperforms prior
models on link prediction tasks.</p>
        <p>SimplE improves tensor factorization for knowledge graph link prediction by learning depen-
dent embeddings for each entity, overcoming limitations of traditional methods. It ofers
interpretable, eficient embeddings, supports background knowledge, and achieves strong
performance with proven full expressiveness.</p>
        <p>CrossE is a knowledge graph embedding method that models bi-directional interactions
between entities and relations by creating both general and triple-specific embeddings. It
achieves state-of-the-art link prediction results on complex datasets and improves
explainability by generating reliable paths to support its predictions.</p>
        <p>BoxE is a knowledge base completion model that represents entities as points and relations
as hyper-rectangles (boxes) in a spatial embedding. It overcomes key limitations of previous
models by supporting logical rules, hierarchies, and higher-arity relations.</p>
        <p>
          CompGCN is a graph convolutional network designed for multi-relational graphs that [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref22">22</xref>
          ]
jointly learns embeddings for both nodes and relations. It uses entity-relation composition
methods to eficiently handle many relations, generalizes existing multi-relational GCNs,
and achieves strong results on tasks like node classification and link prediction.
        </p>
        <p>MuRE proposes embedding multi-relational knowledge graphs in hyperbolic space using
relation-specific transformations, better capturing multiple hierarchies. It outperforms
Euclidean and other methods on link prediction, especially in low-dimensional settings.</p>
        <p>
          QuatE uses quaternion embeddings to model entities and relations in knowledge graphs, [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref27">27</xref>
          ]
enabling expressive 4D rotations and compact interactions via the Hamilton product. It
generalizes ComplEx with better geometric properties and efectively captures key relational
patterns, achieving strong results on benchmark datasets.
        </p>
        <p>SE proposes a neural network-based approach to embed symbolic knowledge from diverse</p>
        <p>Knowledge Bases into a continuous vector space, preserving and enriching their structure.
broader knowledge graph tasks such as link prediction, completion, and entity classification. Table 1
summarizes all 17 models, presenting their key characteristics and citations from recent literature.</p>
        <p>
          The selection of these models was guided by several criteria. First, we prioritized diversity in
modeling approaches, ensuring inclusion of translation-based (e.g., TransE, TransH), convolutional
(e.g., ConvE), bilinear (e.g., DistMult), and neural graph-based methods (e.g., CompGCN). Second, we
considered theoretical expressiveness and scalability, selecting models that are capable of handling
large-scale ontologies with complex relational patterns. Third, we looked at empirical evidence from
Related Works
prior evaluations that demonstrated the efectiveness of these models across a range of domains [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref15">15</xref>
          ].
Finally, compatibility with PyKEEN was an important practical consideration, allowing for unified
implementation and experimentation within the OntoAligner framework. These selected models provide
a representative and comprehensive foundation for experimenting with embedding-based OA strategies.
        </p>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-3-3">
        <title>3.3. Integration with OntoAligner</title>
        <p>To enable embedding-based OA, we developed a specialized module called GraphEmbeddingAligner.
Built on top of the PyKEEN framework, this aligner harnesses KGE models to learn vector
representations of entities from both source and target ontologies. OntoAligner currently supports 17 KGE
models, all of which can be easily integrated through this module. A comprehensive usage guide is
available at http://ontoaligner.readthedocs.io/aligner/kge.html. With a modular and extensible design,
GraphEmbeddingAligner allows users to flexibly experiment with diferent KGE models and
customize training configurations to suit various alignment tasks. An example demonstrating how to use
KGE-based aligners within OntoAligner can be found at https://github.com/sciknoworg/OntoAligner/
blob/main/examples/kge.py.</p>
      </sec>
    </sec>
    <sec id="sec-4">
      <title>4. Evaluations</title>
      <p>This section delves into empirically validating KGE models by employing precision, recall, and F1-score
metrics. Experimental datasets and results are presented in the following.</p>
      <sec id="sec-4-1">
        <title>4.1. Experimental Setups</title>
        <p>Evaluation Datasets OAEI Tracks and Tasks. We carefully chose five tracks from the
OAEI2024 campaign [49] spanning diverse domains for our experimental configurations. The statistics
for seven datasets in five tracks are outlined in Table 2. The chosen tracks include: Anatomy [50]
(Mouse-Human), biodiv – Biodiversity and Ecology [51] (two tasks), CE – Circular Economy [52]
(CEON-BiOnto), MSE – Material Science and Engineering [53](MI-MatOnto), and Bio-ML – Biomedical
Machine Learning [54] (two tasks). These tracks were chosen to represent a range of dataset sizes
(according to the number of triplets) and complexity levels, including: Small-scale tasks (CE track, MSE
track, and FISH-ZOOPLANKTON from Biodiv track), Medium-scale tasks (Anatomy), and Large-scale
tasks (Bio-ML track and the ENVO–SWEET task from the Biodiv track). This selection ensures the
evaluation covers both domain and size diversity, providing insights into the performance of KGEs.
KGE Hyperparameters and OS. For fair comparison, we used CPU-based experimentation with an
embedding dimension of 200, training epoch number of 20, train batch size of 64, evaluation batch size
of 128, and a number of negative samples per positive sample of 5. Moreover, we used 10 core CPUs
with a maximum memory of 80 GB for experimentation.
the top KGE model per task, including threshold  , overlap between alignments and gold (∩), alignment size (),
execution time (T in seconds), precision (Prec), recall (Rec), and F-Measurement (F). The final column lists the
best-performing OA system for each task (with F-Measurement score in parentheses) for comparison.</p>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-4-2">
        <title>4.2. Results</title>
        <p>all seven tasks of this study.</p>
        <sec id="sec-4-2-1">
          <title>4.2.1. Domain Specific Analysis</title>
          <p>The Table 3 presents the best-performing KGE model for each of the seven OAEI benchmark tasks for
We have explored KGE models across five domains, and the results presented in Table 3 present
interesting findings per domain, such as:
• Anatomy Track. In the Mouse-Human task, the DistMult model reached a high precision of
97.9—ranking second among all methods of OAEI-20241—though its recall (69.0%) brought the
overall F-Measure to 81.0, behind Matcha aligner [55] with F-Measure of 94.1.
• Biodiversity and Ecology Track. In the FISH-ZOOPLANKTON task of Biodiv, KGE models –
TrasnF aligner – showed notable superiority. The TransF model achieved a perfect precision of
100 and an F-Measure of 74.9%, significantly outperforming LogMapLt [ 56]—the best OAEI-2024
system at this task2—with an F1 of 64.4. Despite LogMapLt’s nearly perfect execution time, the
KGE method required only 4 seconds, maintaining eficiency while outperforming the
stateof-the-art system. In the SWEET-ENVO task, the LogMap [56] remains the best OAEI system
by F-Measure of 71.3%. However, ConvE aligner exhibited a higher precision of 89.1% than all
systems within OAEI 2024, including LogMapLt with a precision of 80.3%.
• Circular Economy Track. For the CEON-BiOnto task from this track, the ConvE aligner achieved
the best overall F-Measure of 57.1%, outperforming Matcha [55] with an F-Measure of 47.8%, the
top performer in the oficial OAEI-2024 3 results.
• Material Science and Engineering Track. The MI-MatOnto task within this track, showed
a poor F-Measure of 18.8% using TransD aligner. However, the maintained precision of 86.4%
places this model’s performance close to the LogMap system (from OAEI-20234) with a precision
of 88.1%.
• Biomedical Machine Learning Track. For this track, the KGE models did not perform well
in terms of precision and F-Measure. For the OMIM-ORDO task, ConvE aligner reached only
F-Measure of 31.8%, far behind BERTMap‡ [56] with F-Measure of 64.6% (OAEI-20245 system
performance). Even the precision of 69.6% fell short, indicating limitations of unsupervised KGE
methods for complex disease-related alignments. For another task of this track, specifically
NCIT-DOID task, it showed SE aligner performance of 60.2% in terms of F-Measure, significantly
1https://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2024/results/anatomy/index.html
2https://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2024/results/biodiv/index.html
3https://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2024/results/ce/index.html
4https://github.com/EngyNasr/MSE-Benchmark/tree/main/Results/OAEI2023</p>
          <p>Precision (%)</p>
          <p>Recall (%)</p>
          <p>Response Time (s)</p>
          <p>underperforming compared to HybridOM* [57] with F-Measure of 91.8%. Precision of 69.0% was
still promising, but the gap in recall of 53.3% limited its overall efectiveness.</p>
          <p>KGE models, particularly ConvE and TransF, demonstrated competitive or even superior performance
on two tasks—FISH-ZOOPLANKTON and CEON-BiOnto—in terms of F-Measure. In other tasks,
particularly OMIM-ORDO and NCIT-DOID, performance lagged behind traditional or supervised OA systems.
Overall, KGE methods tend to produce high-precision alignments with lower recall, suggesting their
suitability for applications requiring conservative, high-confidence mappings.</p>
        </sec>
        <sec id="sec-4-2-2">
          <title>4.2.2. Empirical Trends in KGE Aligners</title>
          <p>The analysis of the summary of results presented in Table 3 across seven benchmark tasks and five
domains reveals consistent empirical trends in KGE aligners’ behavior. While performance varies across
tasks and domains, certain trends emerge regarding precision, recall, alignment size, execution time,
and model-task interactions. These observations provide insight into the operational characteristics
and eficiency of KGE aligners and highlight considerations for their application in ontology alignment
tasks
Behavioral Characteristics. Across all tasks, the top-performing KGE models exhibited notably high
precision scores—often exceeding 85%—even in tasks where recall and F-Measure were relatively poor,
e.g., TransD in MI-MatOnto (Precision 86.4% but Recall 10.5%), ConvE in ENVO-SWEET (Precision 89.1%
vs. Recall 40.6%), or DistMult in Mouse-Human: (Precision 97.9% vs. Recall 69.0%). More detailed analysis
is presented in Figure 2 (Precision and Recall columns). This shows that KGE aligners are conservative
aligners that prioritize correctness over completeness, making them well-suited for high-confidence,
low-risk integration tasks where false positives are costly.</p>
          <p>Moreover, tasks like OMIM-ORDO and NCIT-DOID, which have large-scale sizes in terms of
references, also had large-scale alignments ( = 772 and  = 2537 respectively). Yet, their performance
(F-Measures of 31.8% and 60.2%, respectively) remained moderate compared to tasks with smaller
alignments (e.g., FISH-ZOOPLANKTON with only nine alignments and F-Measures = 74.9%, where
total references is 9 – see Table 2 for total references). This means that predicted alignment volume
does not directly translate to quality, especially in semantically dense or noisy domains. KGE models
may overgenerate candidates in large ontologies unless appropriately constrained.
Operational Eficiency. The majority of KGE aligners completed their tasks—including
representation learning and inference—within 100 seconds for most benchmark tasks (Table 3), even when
handling hundreds or thousands of candidate alignments, such as in Mouse-Human. Figure 3 illustrates
the CPU versus memory usage of the models, averaged across all tasks. Most aligners utilize 80–90%
of available CPU cores and consume over 6GB of memory, highlighting that KGE-based methods</p>
          <p>Average CPU vs Memory per Model
MuRE</p>
          <p>SE
are computationally eficient and capable of supporting scalable or on-demand ontology alignment,
including in dynamic or real-time systems.</p>
          <p>Model-Task Interactions. The optimal similarity threshold  for alignment significantly varies
across tasks, suggesting that no universal threshold works across domains. This indicates that KGE
aligners require task-specific or domain-specific calibration, particularly around the similarity threshold.
Auto-tuning or adaptive thresholding could significantly improve F-Measure in future iterations.</p>
          <p>Nevertheless, certain KGE aligners seem particularly efective in specific domains. ConvE aligner
performs best in comparison to its own companion KGE aligners in multi-relational tasks
(ENVOSWEET, CEON-BiOnto, OMIM-ORDO). TransF aligner excels in structure-rich, less ambiguous domains
(FISH-ZOOPLANKTON). DistMult works well in clean, hierarchical taxonomies (Mouse-Human). SE
aligner provides a better balance of precision and recall in larger biomedical terminologies (NCIT-DOID).
Future systems could auto-select the KGE aligner based on ontology metadata (e.g., size, depth, domain)
to optimize performance per task or do ensemble learning.</p>
        </sec>
      </sec>
    </sec>
    <sec id="sec-5">
      <title>5. Conclusions and Future Directions</title>
      <p>In this paper, we have systematically explored the application of Knowledge Graph Embeddings within
Ontology Alignment tasks. Our comprehensive framework, integrated within the OntoAligner toolkit,
leverages a collection of 17 prominent KGE models. Through empirical evaluations on seven benchmark
tasks across diverse domains such as Anatomy, Biodiversity, Circular Economy, Material Science,
and Biomedical Machine Learning, we identified several key findings. KGE-based aligners generally
produce alignments characterized by high precision but moderate recall, indicating their suitability for
conservative, high-confidence ontology matching scenarios.</p>
      <p>Notably, ConvE and TransF emerged as particularly efective models, demonstrating superior
performance in multi-relational and structure-rich tasks, respectively. Nevertheless, our analysis also revealed
limitations of KGE methods in complex biomedical alignments, highlighting the need for improved
techniques or hybrid approaches in these domains.</p>
      <p>Future research could address several promising directions:
• Adaptive Thresholding and Calibration: Our results indicated no universal similarity threshold
applicable across diverse ontology alignment tasks. Developing adaptive thresholding strategies
that dynamically calibrate based on ontology metadata could enhance model flexibility and
performance.
• Hybrid Models: Integrating KGEs with LLMs or other contextual embedding approaches could
leverage complementary strengths, potentially improving alignment accuracy in complex,
contextrich domains.
• Domain-specific Enhancements: Given the domain-dependent efectiveness observed, tailoring
KGE methodologies to specific ontological structures or leveraging metadata-driven model
selection and ensemble strategies may provide meaningful gains.</p>
      <p>In conclusion, embedding-based ontology alignment presents a powerful yet still evolving paradigm.
Addressing these future directions will not only advance the state-of-the-art in ontology alignment but
also extend the practical utility of KGEs across a broader range of semantic web and knowledge-intensive
applications.</p>
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      <title>Acknowledgments</title>
      <p>This work is jointly supported by the SCINEXT project (BMFTR, German Federal Ministry of
Research, Technology and Space, Grant ID: 01lS22070), the KISSKI AI Service Center (BMFTR, Grant
ID: 01IS22093C), and the NFDI4DataScience initiative (DFG, German Research Foundation, Grant ID:
460234259).</p>
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