Alignment API: Systems using the Alignment API
If you use the Alignment API and/or the Alignment server and are
willing to be included here (this certainly help supporting this work), do not
hesitate to contact us.
Systems embedding the alignment API
These systems can use any implementation of the API and thus take
advantage of all matching system extending the API.
- [NeOn toolkit]
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The NeOn toolkit has an Alignment plug-in based on the Alignment
API and Alignment server. It allows to match ontologies loaded in
the toolkit as well as search existing alignments in an Alignment
server. The plug-in for the NeOn toolkit is shiped with the Alignment
API and available through the NeOn toolkit plug-in installer.
- [ContentMap]
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ContentMap is a tool to help users anticipate the effect of merging
ontologies through alignments. For that purpose, it is able to
generate the consequences entailed by aligned ontologies and to detect
inconsistencies. It uses the Alignment API for expressing alignments.
Ernesto Jimenez Ruiz, Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrocks and Rafael
Berlanga, Ontology Integration Using Mappings: Towards Getting the
Right Logical Consequences, Proc. 6th ESWC, Heraklion (GR), LNCS , pp, 2009
- [Cupboard]
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Cupboard is a personal repository for ontologies and alignments. It
allows to find ontlogies from Watson and alignments from the Alignment
server and to register them to the user's personal space. These
resources also share metadata through Oyster and ratings through OTS.
Mathieu d'Aquin, Holger Lewen, Cupboard - A Place to Expose your Ontologies to Applications and
the Community, Proc. 6th ESWC demo paper, Heraklion (GR), LNCS , pp907-910, 2009
- [WebContent platform]
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The WebContent project aims to offer a platform for taking adavantage
of the resources from the semantic web. It offers an alignment service
based on the Alignment server. The WebContent service is shipped with
the Alignment API.
- [OWL Ontology Aligner]
- A server built around the API for processing, editing and
rendering alignments (University of Innsbruck).
Anna Zhdanova, Pavel Shvaiko, Community-Driven Ontology
Matching, Proc. 3rd ESWC, LNCS 4011:34-39, 2006
- [StYLiD]
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StYLiD aims at offering a consolidated view of ontologies in the
semantic web. For that purpose it has to record relations between
concerts from different ontologies and uses the Alignment API.
Aman Shakya, Hideaki Takeda, Vilas Wuwongse, Consolidating User-Defined Concepts with StYLiD, The Semantic Web: 3rd Asian
Semantic Web Conference, Aswc, LNCS 5367:287-301, 2008
- [Web Service Modeling Toolkit]
- The Web Service Modelling Toolkit allows to define and execute
semantic web services in the WSMX framework. For implementing
mediators it uses the OMWG Expressive alignment format which is now
an extension of the Alignment API (see below).
Mick Kerrigan, Adrian Mocan, Martin Tanler and Dieter
Fensel, The Web Service Modeling Toolkit - An Integrated
Development Environment for Semantic Web Services , Proc. 4th ESWC
System description, Innsbruck (AT), LNCS 4519:789-798, 2007
- [Malasco]
- A system that automatically partitions ontologies with various
strategies and feed them into a matcher, including one using the
Alignment API.
Heiko Paulheim, On
applying matching tools to large-scale ontologies, Proc. 3rd
Ontology matching workshop, Karlsruhe (DE), pp214-218, 2008
- [VisOn]
- The VisOn ontology visualizer now works with any implementation of
the API. It provides the opportunity to load and display
ontologies, load, run, display and compare alignment algorithms.
Systems implementing the Alignment API
These systems offer the interface of the API and can take place in
any system using the API. We do not know any other implementation
of the API but ours. (OMWG may be?).
Systems extending the alignment API
These systems usually implement some matching algorithm on top of
the API implementation (and benefit from all implemented
services).
- [OLA]
- A matching algorithm for OWL-Lite that measures distance between
all ontology components and perform an iterative fixpoint search.
Jean-François Djoufak-Kengue, Jérôme Euzenat, Petko Valtchev, OLA in the OAEI 2007 evaluation contest, in: Pavel Shvaiko, Jérôme Euzenat, Fausto Giunchiglia, Bin He (eds), Proc. 2nd ISWC 2007 workshop on ontology matching (OM), Busan (KR), pp188-195, 2007
- [oMap]
- oMap is a tool for combining matchers using fuzzy techniques.
Umberto Straccia, Raphaël Troncy: oMAP: Combining Classifiers for
Aligning Automatically OWL Ontologies. Proc. WISE, pp133-147, 2005
- [DSSim]
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DSSim is an ontology matcher based on the Dempster-Shafer theory and
fuzzy voting model for combining the results of several base matchers.
Miklos Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera, Enrico Motta, DSSim-ontology mapping with uncertainty,
Proc. 1st Ontology matching workshop, Athens (GA US), pp115-123, 2006.
- [OMWG Expressive alignment format]
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The OMWG Expressive alignement format is a format designed in the SEKT
and Knowledge web European projects for expressing elaborate correspondencs to
be processed in web service mediation.
François Scharffe, Jos de
Bruijn, A
language to specify mappings between ontologies, Proc. 1st
International Conference on Signal-Image Technology and Internet-Based
Systems, Yaounde (CM), pp267-271, 2005
- [Prior]
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Prior uses the Alignment API to parse ontologies and generate alignments.
Ming Mao, Yefei
Peng, The PRIOR+:
Results for OAEI Campaign 2007, Proc. 2nd Ontology Matching workshop, Busan (KR), pp219-226, 2007
- [Cider]
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CIDER is prototype matcher developed in Java, extending
the Alignment API. It computes a representation of concepts as a bag
of words obtained from the concepts and its neighborhood. These
representations are compared in a vector space.
Jorge Gracia, Eduardo Mena, Ontology Matching with CIDER: Evaluation
Report for the OAEI 2008, Proc. 3rd Ontology Matching worshop,
Karlruhe (DE), pp140-146, 2008
- [Aroma]
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Aroma is an ontology matchers using the association rule mining from
the data. It is now ported on top of the Alignment API.
Jérôme David, Fabrice Guillet, Henri Briand, Association rule ontology
matching approach, International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems 3(2):27-49, 2007.
Systems outputing the alignment API
These systems are able to generate alignments in the Alignment
format that the Alignment API can handle. This is in fact the case
of most of the system participating
to OAEI since the
evaluation is made from this format.
- [FOAM]
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FOAM is a framework for matching OWL ontologies offering various
parameters. It is able to output the Alignment format.
Marc Ehrig, York
Sure, FOAM - Framework for Ontology Alignment and Mapping, Proc. 1st Ontology matching
workshop, Athens (GA US), pp72-76, 2005
- [Falcon-AO]
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Falcon-AO is an automatic ontology matching system based on both
terminological and structural methods. It also features a partitioning
algorithm for matching large ontologies.
Wei Hu, Yuzhong Qu, Falcon-AO: A practical ontology matching
system, Journal of web semantics 6(3):237-239, 2008
- [CMS]
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The Crosi Mapping System is a framework for expressing and solving
matching problems. It integrates the Alignment API as an external
matcher. It is also able to generate the Alignment format.
Yannis Kalfoglou, Bo Hu, Dave Reynolds, Nigel Shadbolt, Crosi
project, final report, School of Electronics and Computer
Science, University of Southhampton, Tech. Rep., 2005
- [MDSS]
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MDSS is a framework for the integration of matching
tools. It uses the Alignment format for representing alignments and
exchanging between tools.
Gabriele Marcelli, Tania Di Mascio, Fulvio
D'Antonio, MDSS: A framework for the integration of ontology mapping tools, Proc. 3rd Italian Semantic Web Workshop, Pisa (IT), 2006
- [Lucene Ontology Matcher]
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The Lucene ontology matcher uses the Lucene search engine for
matching ontologies. It generates alignments in the Alignment format
and uses the evaluation facilities of the Alignment API.
Giuseppe Pirro,
Domenico Talia, Towards a Scalable and Collaborative Information Integration Platform and Methodology, Proc. 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2007), pp407-411, 2007
- [noname]
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The authors developed a mapping platform made of a server and a client
allowing to match ontologies and to store the result a server. The
client allow to edit alignments and export them on the Alignment format.
Felix van de Maele, Alicía Díaz, Towards a Scalable and
Collaborative Information Integration Platform and
Methodology, Proc. OTM, Monterrey (MX), LNCS 5333:220-229, 2008
Experiments using the alignment API
These experiments that have used the Alignment API, for instance
for evaluation of alignments but do not provide a system per se.
- [OAEI]
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The Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative organises evaluation of
ontology matchers based on measuring the alignments returned by
matchers. The matchers are required to return the Alignment format and
evaluation is performed by evaluators from the Alignment API.
Caterina Caracciolo, Jérôme Euzenat, Laura Hollink, Ryutaro Ichise, Antoine Isaac, Véronique Malaisé, Christian Meilicke, Juan Pane, Pavel Shvaiko, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Ondrej Sváb-Zamazal, Vojtech Svátek,
Results of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative
2008, Proc. 3rd Ontology matching workshop, Karlsruhe (DE),
pp73-119, 2008
- [OntoFarm]
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OntoFarm is a collection of ontologies about the same topic:
conference organisation. The collection has been used in the OAEI
evaluations and further exploited for refining and analysing
alignments between ontologies. The alignments are manipulated through
the Alignment API.
Ondrej Sváb, Vojtech Svátek, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, A Study in
Empirical and 'Casuistic' Analysis of Ontology Mapping Results, Proc. 4th ESWC, LNCS 4519:655-669,
2007
- [ModelCVS]
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The ModelCVS project aims at providing a network of software models and
alignments between these that can be used for model-driven
operations. It uses the Alignment format and API for manipulating alignments.
Gerti Kappel, Horst Kargl, Gerhart Kramler, Andrea Schauerhuber, Martina Seidl, Michael Strommer, Manuel Wimmer, Matching Metamodels with Semantic Systems - An Experience Report, In Workshop Proc. of Datenbanksysteme in Business, Technologie und Web
(BTW'07), pp38-52, Germany, 2007
- [DAM]
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DAM is a hybrid terminological/structural matcher that extract the
best match beween concepts seeded by terminological measures based on the Alignment
API.
Andrea Heβ, An Iterative Algorithm for Ontology Mapping Capable
of Using Training Data, Proc. 3rd ESWC, LNCS 4011:19-33, 2006
Miscellaneous
- [SimPack]
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Apparently, SimPack takes advantage of the few StringDistances that
are provided with the Alignment API.
Patrick Ziegler, Christoph Kiefer, Christoph Sturm, Klaus Dittrich, Abraham Bernstein, Detecting Similarities in Ontologies
with the SOQA-SimPack Toolkit, Proc 10th International
Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Munich (DE),
pp-59-76, 2006 ,
More on Google scholar
and our own publications about the Alignment API and server..
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