A Framework for Ontology Integration and Evaluation

Ontology, as a representation of shared conceptualization of specific domain, is a key technology for the Semantic Web. In recent years, many ontologies have been developed and many of these ontologies contain overlapping information. To be able to use multiple ontologies we need a flexible mechanism to integrate ontologies. In this paper we present a framework for ontology integration which combines ontology similarity measures and ontology integration algorithm. After integrating, we perform pruning and checking the consistency of the integrated ontology. Further, we evaluate our approach in terms of ontology quality.