PROMPT: Algorithm and Tool for Automated Ontology Merging and Alignment

PROMPT, an algorithm that provides a semi-automatic approach to ontology merging and alignment, is developed and implemented and is based on an extremely general knowledge model and therefore can be applied across various platforms.

Abstract

Researchers in the ontology-design field have developed the content for ontologies in many domain areas. Recently, ontologies have become increasingly common on the World-Wide Web where they provide semantics for annotations in Web pages. This distributed nature of ontology development has led to a large number of ontologies covering overlapping domains. In order for these ontologies to be reused, they first need to be merged or aligned to one another. The processes of ontology alignment and merging are usually handled manually and often constitute a large and tedious portion of the sharing process. We have developed and implemented PROMPT, an algorithm that provides a semi-automatic approach to ontology merging and alignment. PROMPT performs some tasks automatically and guides the user in