2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Pay-As-You-Go Multi-user Feedback Model for Ontology Matching
Authors : Isabel F. Cruz, Francesco Loprete, Matteo Palmonari, Cosmin Stroe, Aynaz Taheri
Published in: Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Using our multi-user model, a community of users provides feedback in a pay-as-you-go fashion to the ontology matching process by validating the mappings found by automatic methods, with the following advantages over having a single user: the effort required from each user is reduced, user errors are corrected, and consensus is reached. We propose strategies that dynamically determine the order in which the candidate mappings are presented to the users for validation. These strategies are based on mapping quality measures that we define. Further, we use a propagation method to leverage the validation of one mapping to other mappings. We use an extension of the AgreementMaker ontology matching system and the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI) Benchmarks track to evaluate our approach. Our results show how Fmeasure and robustness vary as a function of the number of user validations. We consider different user error and revalidation rates (the latter measures the number of times that the same mapping is validated). Our results highlight complex trade-offs and point to the benefits of dynamically adjusting the revalidation rate.