After years of research on ontology matching, it is reasonable to consider several questions:
is the field of ontology matching still making progress? Is this progress significant enough to …

An ontology typically provides a vocabulary describing a domain of interest and a
specification of the meaning of terms in that vocabulary. Depending on the precision of this …

As a unified model for describing biomedical knowledge, a biomedical ontology is of help to
solve the issues of data heterogeneity in different biomedical databases. However, these …

Background One of the longest running tracks in the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative
is the Anatomy track which focuses on aligning two anatomy ontologies. The Anatomy track …

The purely manual specification of semantic correspondences between schemas is almost
infeasible for very large schemas or when many different schemas have to be matched …

Background Biomedical ontologies pose several challenges to ontology matching due both
to the complexity of the biomedical domain and to the characteristics of the ontologies …

The ontology alignment consists in generating a set of correspondences between entities.
These entities can be concepts, properties or instances. The ontology alignment is an …

In order to perform ontology matching with high accuracy, while at the same time retaining
applicability to most diverse input ontologies, the matching process generally incorporates …

Schema and ontology matching have attracted a great deal of interest among researchers.
Despite the advances achieved, the large matching problem still presents a real challenge …

Abstract Nowadays, Big Data management has become a key basis for innovation,
productivity growth, and competition. The correlated exploitation of data of this magnitude …