Partitioning-based ontology matching approaches: a comparative analysis

Generic Framework. Ontology matching is the process that takes two or more ontologies to identify semantically corresponding entities across them. As the numbers of developed ontologies as well as the number of entities in each ontology are increasing, traditional approaches to ontology matching fail or are not able to scale. Therefore, there is a growing need for new matching algorithms. A common approach to deal with the large-scale matching problem is the partitioning-based technique [5]. To make these techniques comparable, we propose a generic framework containing the following phases (shown in Fig. 1):