Ontologies for information fusion

Lucioano Serafini, ITC Trento, Italy

Abstract

The course will address the following topics:

• what is an ontology and how can it be used for information description
• the problem of semantic heterogeneity (multiple ontologies, describing multiple prespectives)
• the possible solutions to semantic heterogeneity two main approaches the mediated approach and the p2p approach (presentation and discussion)
• Matching heterogeneous ontology, using natural language resources (WORDNET)
• practical session with a computational system for integrating ontologies, (DRAGO - Distributed Reasoning Architecture for a galaxy of Ontologies)