Towards Ontology Matching via Pattern-Based Detection of Semantic Structures in OWL Ontologies

Ontology Matching is nowadays a vivid area of Computer Science. There are several OM tools looking for correspondences between entities of ontologies. These correspondences are usual simple equivalence mapping pairs classto-class or property-to-property. In our work we concentrate on diverse kinds of semantic structures in ontologies in terms of their detection and mutual matching. For this kind of matching not only equivalence relations as well as not only homogeneous correspondences are envisaged. The paper is a report from the first phase of the work aiming at ontology matching via pattern-based detection of semantic structures in OWL ontologies. In this initial phase we mainly pay attention to n-ary relations and their discovery in OWL ontologies. Subsequent phases lie in description of conditions of semantic matching between semantic structures.