NSByGrounding

Nominal Schema Reasoning by Grounding

This page contains the implementation of nominal schema reasoning using naive grounding. Although not highly time-efficient this implementation will be used as a baseline for the development and testing of more efficient algorithms, and shows that even the naive grounding approach can be used for small use cases or for initial testing.

Approach

BLOOMS bootstrapping approach utilizes the Wikipedia category hierarchy for aligning ontologies. BLOOMS constructs a forest (i.e., a set of trees) T_C (known as BLOOMS forest for C) for each matching candidate class name C, which roughly corresponds to a selection of supercategories of the class name. Comparison of the forests T_C and T_B for matching candidate classes C and B then yields a decision whether or not (and with which of the candidate relations) C and B should be aligned.