Abstract
Most libraries and other cultural heritage institutions use controlled knowledge organisation systems, such as thesauri, to describe their collections. Unfortunately, as most of these institutions use different such systems, unified access to heterogeneous collections is difficult. Things are even worse in an international context when concepts have labels in different languages. In order to overcome the multilingual interoperability problem between European Libraries, extensive work has been done to manually map concepts from different knowledge organisation systems, which is a tedious and expensive process.
Within the TELplus project, we developed and evaluated methods to automatically discover these mappings, using different ontology matching techniques. In experiments on major French, English and German subject heading lists Rameau, LCSH and SWD, we show that we can automatically produce mappings of surprisingly good quality, even when using relatively naive translation and matching methods.
Within the TELplus project, we developed and evaluated methods to automatically discover these mappings, using different ontology matching techniques. In experiments on major French, English and German subject heading lists Rameau, LCSH and SWD, we show that we can automatically produce mappings of surprisingly good quality, even when using relatively naive translation and matching methods.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries |
Subtitle of host publication | 13th European Conference, ECDL 2009Corfu, Greece, September 27 – October 2, 2009, Proceedings |
Editors | Maristella Agosti |
Publisher | Springer Verlag |
Pages | 125-137 |
Number of pages | 13 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783642043451, 3642043453 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Event | 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2009) - Duration: 1 Jan 2009 → 1 Jan 2009 |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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Number | 5714 |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
Conference
Conference | 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2009) |
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Period | 1/01/09 → 1/01/09 |