Abstract
Detecting and measuring semantic drift in different versions of on-
tologies across time is a novel area of research that rapidly gains attention.
Nevertheless, there exist only a few relevant practical methods and tools and
even fewer are flexible enough to be efficiently applied to multiple domains. As
the often domain-specific nature of ontologies may render methods and tools
for measuring semantic drift ineffective, this paper presents the application and
findings of the SemaDrift suite of methods and tools in several domains, illus-
trating novel insights for the first time. While developed in the context of the
PERICLES FP7 project, aimed at Digital Preservation, domain-independent
text and structural similarity measures, available both as a software library and
as a Protégé plugin for end-users, are now applied in the Dutch Historical Cen-
sus and the BBC Sports Ontology. The two different domains demonstrate its
applicability and ability to pinpoint the location, nature, origins and destinations
of concept drift
tologies across time is a novel area of research that rapidly gains attention.
Nevertheless, there exist only a few relevant practical methods and tools and
even fewer are flexible enough to be efficiently applied to multiple domains. As
the often domain-specific nature of ontologies may render methods and tools
for measuring semantic drift ineffective, this paper presents the application and
findings of the SemaDrift suite of methods and tools in several domains, illus-
trating novel insights for the first time. While developed in the context of the
PERICLES FP7 project, aimed at Digital Preservation, domain-independent
text and structural similarity measures, available both as a software library and
as a Protégé plugin for end-users, are now applied in the Dutch Historical Cen-
sus and the BBC Sports Ontology. The two different domains demonstrate its
applicability and ability to pinpoint the location, nature, origins and destinations
of concept drift
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | MEPDaW-LDQ 2017 Joint Proceedings of MEPDaW and LDQ 2017 |
| Subtitle of host publication | Joint proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Managing the Evolution and Preservation of the Data Web (MEPDaW 2017) and the 4th Workshop on Linked Data Quality (LDQ 2017) co-located with 14th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2017) Portorož, Slovenia, May 28th-29th, 2017 |
| Editors | Jeremy Debattista, Jürgen Umbrich, Javier D. Fernández |
| Publisher | CEUR-WS.org |
| Pages | 59-72 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Publication series
| Name | CEUR Workshop Proceedings |
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| Publisher | CEUR ws.org |
| Volume | 1824 |