• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.1-19
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• 2005

Ontology-based approaches for automated information integration are being widely investigated. The existing approaches explicitly represent the semantics of information sources in ontologies and let the computer system, through aligning or merging the source ontologies, provide a global view of information sources. The problem of aligning or merging different ontologies is a well known problem, and the inter-ontology mappings play an essential role in information integration. To enable simple and well-founded mappings , the ontologies of information sources should be modeled with the same world view and with the same manner of representation. This paper introduces an ontology modeling framework for component libraries, which is developed based on the Guarino's theory of upper ontology . This paper discusses the results of modeling ontologies of mold and die component libraries based on the framework. A Web-based implementation automatically merges the source ontologies.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.333-342
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• 2010

Building ontology is the key factor to construct semantic web. However, this is time-consuming process. Hence, there are several approaches which automatically generate the ontologies from relational databases. Current studies on the automatic generation of the ontologies from relational database are focused on generating the ontology by analyzing the database schema and stored data. These studies generate the ontology by analyzing only tables and constraints in the schema and ignore view definitions. However, view definitions are defined by a database designer considering the domain of the database. Hence, by considering view definitions, additional classes and hierarchical relationships can be generated. And these are useful in answering queries and integration of ontologies. In this paper, we formalize the generation of classes and hierarchical relationships by analyzing existing methods, and we propose the method which generates additional classes and hierarchical relationships by analyzing view definitions. Finally, we analyze the generated ontology by applying our method to synthetic data and real-world data. We show that our method generates meaningful classes and hierarchical relationships using view definitions.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.12D no.4 s.100
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• pp.627-636
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• 2005

The Intelligent Web Service is proposed for the purpose of automatic discovery, invocation, composition, inter-operation, execution monitoring and recovery web service through the Semantic Web and the Agent technology. To accomplish this Intelligent Web Service, the Ontology is a necessity for reasoning and processing the knowledge by the computer. However, creating service ontology, for the intelligent web service, has two problems not only consuming a lot of time and cost depended on heuristic of service developer, but also being hard to be mapping completely between service and service ontology. Moreover, the markup language to describe the service ontology is currently hard to be learned by the service developer In a short time. This paper proposes the efficient way of designing and creating the service ontology using MDA methodology. This proposed solution reuses the creating model in terms of desiEninE and constructing Web Service Model using UML based on MDA. After converting the Platform-Independent Web Service Model to the dependent model of OWL-S which is a Service Ontology description language, it converts to OWL-S Service Ontology using XMI. This proposed solution has profits, oneis able to be easily constructed the Service Ontology by Service Developers, the other is enable to be created the both service and Service Ontology from one model. Moreover, it can be effective to reduce the time and cost as creating Service Ontology automatically from a model, and calmly dealt with a change of outer environment like as the platform change. This paper cites an instance for the validity of designing Web Service model and creating the Service Ontology, and validates whether the created Service Ontology is valid or not.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.245-250
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• 2007

We have proposed Fuzzy-CBR to find a solution from past knowledge retrieved from the database and adapted to a new situation. However, ontology is needed in identifying concepts, relations and instances that are involved in a situation in order to improve and facilitate the efficient retrieval of similar cases from the CBR database. This paper proposes the way to apply ontology fur identifying the concepts involved in a new case, used as inputs, for a ship collision avoidance support system and in solving for similarity through document articulation and abstraction levels. These ontologies will be used to build a conceptual model of a maneuvering situation.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.353-360
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• 2004

World Wide Web is not more meaningless sea of information but is becoming the Semantic Web that provides many users with meaningful information. The starting point is the XML and metadata, RDF is a stopover which gives technique to relate arbitrary web resources. And now, the semantic and logic of web resources can be settled in the Ontology. A lot of educational multimedia web resources in Korea have produced their metadata with KERIS's KEM(Korea Educational Metadata). Therefore our country have to start the study of the semantic and logic in web resources. But, many researchers in Korea are more eager to study Dublin Core's DC and SCORM's LOM metadata specification than KEM. Thus the study of method about sharing and integrating these three metadata specifications should be performed before the study of semantic and logic in web resources in Korea. We design the Ontology to integrate these three metadata specifications and implement the prototype system using this Ontology. These three metadata have some elements that have same labels and meanings, and other elements have different labels and same meanings. To match these different labels which have same meanings, we adapted the one-to-one mapping technique in designing our Ontology. This designed Ontology was imported as "integrated schema" in our prototype searching system to integrate three different metadata in databases. Moreover we know that the more specific property design of class in Ontology was needed in order to provide users with more informed searching results such as synonym, antonym, hierarchy and associations.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.269-276
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• 2007

온톨로지 매핑 기술은 시맨틱 웹을 비롯한 여러 분야에서 중요한 기술 중 하나이다. 온톨로지 매핑은 두 개의 온톨로지를 입력으로 받고, 이를 몇 개의 매개변수로 구성된 특정 알고리즘을 이용하여 두 온톨로지 간의 매칭 관계를 알아내고 이를 표현하는 절차를 말한다. 온톨로지 매핑을 이용하여 대용량 온톨로지의 통합이나, 지능화된 통합 검색을 구현할 수 있고, 여러 응용프로그램이 하나의 도메인을 공유하는 등 여러가지 방안으로 사용할 수 있다. 일반적으로 온톨로지 매핑의 성능을 판단하는데 있어서 매핑 결과를 측정하는 방법론의 측정 값을 주로 고려해왔다. 본 연구에서는 매핑을 수행할 때 두 개의 파라미터를 사용하였는데 하나는 알파이고 하나는 Threshold이다. 이것은 매핑의 정확성을 판단하는데 많은 영향을 미친다. 앞서 언급했듯이 매핑결과에 대한 측정값을 중요하게 여기기 때문에 많은 매핑관련 연구에서 알고리즘이 좋은 측정값을 도출할 수 있도록 파라미터를 조절하는 것에 초점을 맞춰왔다. 본 연구에서 측정방법에 따른 높은 측정결과를 지향하는 것이 아닌 온톨로지의 성격과 매핑결과의 사용처에 따라 파라미터를 적절히 변화시켜야 한다는 점에 주목하고, 주어진 환경과 매핑의 사용처에 알맞게 파라미터를 조정하는 방법론을 제안하고자 한다.

• Language and Information
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.165-196
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• 2010

The primary goal of this paper is to propose methods of enriching two heterogeneous ontologies: Sejong Semantic Classes (SJSC) and KorLexNoun 1.5 (KLN). In order to achieve this goal, this study introduces the pros and cons of two ontologies, and analyzes the error patterns found during the fine-grained manual mapping processes between them. Error patterns can be classified into four types: (1) structural defectives involved in node branching, (2) errors in assigning the semantic classes, (3) deficiency in providing linguistic information, and (4) lack of the lexical units representing specific concepts. According to these error patterns, we propose different solutions in order to correct the node branching defectives and the semantic class assignment, to complement the deficiency of linguistic information, and to increase the number of lexical units suitably allotted to their corresponding concepts. Using the results of this study, we can obtain more enriched ontologies by correcting the defects and errors in each ontology, which will lead to the enhancement of practicality for syntactic and semantic analysis.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.23-30
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• 2004

Ontologies play an important role in the Semantic Web by providing well-defined meaning to ontology consumers. But as the ontologies are authored in a bottom-up distributed mimer, a large number of overlapping ontologies are created and used for the similar domains. Ontology sharing and reuse have become a distinguished topic, and ontology merging and alignment are the solutions for the problem. Ontology merging and alignment algorithms previously proposed detect conflicts between concepts by making use of only local syntactic information of concept names. And they depend only on a semi-automatic approach, which makes ontology engineers tedious. Consequently, the quality of merging and alignment tends to be unsatisfying. To remedy the defects of the previous algorithms, we propose a new algorithm for ontology merging and alignment which uses local and global semantic set of a concept. We evaluated our algorithm with several pairs of ontologies written in OWL, and achieved around 91% of precision in merging and alignment. We expect that, with the widespread use of web ontology, the need for ontology sharing and reuse ill become higher, and our proposed algorithm can significantly reduce the time required for ontology development. And also, our algorithm can easily be applied to various fields such as ontology mapping where semantic information exchange is a requirement.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.319-336
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• 2009

Semantic web technology is the evolution of current World Wide Web including a machine-understandable knowledge database, ontology, it may be enable machine and people to work together. However, problems arise when we try to communicate with different data, which are annotated by different ontologies created by different people with different concepts. Thus, to communicate between ontologies, it needs to align between heterogeneous ontologies. When it is aligned between concept nodes of heterogeneous ontologies, one of main problems is a misalignment situation caused by false negative of automatic ontology mapping. So, in this paper, we present a new method to minimize the false negative error in the process of aligning concept nodes of different ontology.

• Korean Journal of Oriental Medicine
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.133-139
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• 2012

Objective : UMLS is 'Ontology' which establishes the database for medical terminology by gathering various medical vocabularies representing same fundamental concepts. Method : Although Chinese character are represented in the Chinese part of Korean Unicode system in a computer, writing of Chinese characters is vary depending on Chinese input systems and Chinese writers' levels of knowledge. As the result of this, representation of Chinese writing in a computer will be considerably different from an old Chinese document. Therefore, a meaningful relationship between digital Chinese terminology and translated Korean is necessary in order to build Ontology for Chinese medical terms from Oriental medical prescription in a computer system. Result : This research will present 1:1 mapping information among the Chinese characters used in the Oriental medical prescription with analysis of 'same character different sound' and 'same meaning different shape' in Chinese part of Unicode systems. Conclusions : Furthermore, the research will provide top-down menu of relationship between Chinese term and Korean term in medical prescription with assumption of that the Oriental medical prescription has its own unique meaning.