Abstract
For some years now ontologies have been used in Social Sci-ence,e.g., in annotation of newspaper articles for disambiguating con-cepts within Media Analysis. These ontologies and annotations have nowbecome objects of study in their own right, as they implicitly repre-sent the shift of meaning of political concept over time. Manual map-pings, which are intrinsically intensional, can hardly capture such subtlechanges, but we claim that automatic instance-based mappings, withtheir extensional character, are more suitable for producing interestingmapping-chains.In this paper, we evaluate the use of instance-based ontology mappingsfor producing concept chains in a case-study in Communication Scienceon a corpus with ontologies describing the Dutch election campaigns since1994. This initial research shows the potential of the associative characterof extensional mapping-chains, but also indicates a number of unsolvedopen questions, most significantly the lack of a proper methodology forevaluating such chains due to the open, explorative character of the task.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2009) |
Subtitle of host publication | Collocated with the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-2009), Chantilly, USA, October 25, 2009 |
Editors | Pavel Shvaiko |
Publisher | CEUR-WS |
Number of pages | 12 |
Publication status | Published - Oct 2009 |
Event | 4th International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2009) - Chantilly Duration: 25 Oct 2009 → 25 Oct 2009 Conference number: 4th |
Publication series
Name | CEUR WS |
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Volume | 551 |
ISSN (Print) | 1613-0073 |
Conference
Conference | 4th International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2009) |
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Abbreviated title | OM-2009 |
City | Chantilly |
Period | 25/10/09 → 25/10/09 |