OWL-M Extension for Semantic Representations of Ontology Alignments

Ontology Matching (OM) consists of set of processes that decide and establish if ontology elements share lexical or semantic relationships. For a correct alignment, when we establish semantic relationships, it is necessary to find out the meaning of the elements that depends on the context. In this paper, we propose an extension of OWL called OWL-M to improve the representation of multiple types of relationships among ontology elements taking account the context. In function of each OWL-M alignment, a similarity degree is computed. Moreover, to assist in decision making when human participation is required, we define a set of annotations to describe the logical decisions used by OWL-M processes.