Measuring the Relative Performance of Schema Matchers

Authors: 
Berkovsky, S.; Eytani, Y.; Gal, A.
Author: 
Berkovsky, S
Eytani, Y
Gal, A
Year: 
2005
Venue: 
Proc. Web Intelligence Conf., 2005
URL: 
http://www.dit.unitn.it/~p2p/RelatedWork/Matching/GA-sm10.pdf
Citations: 
10
Citations range: 
10 - 49
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Schema matching is a complex process focusing on matching between concepts describing the data in heterogeneous data sources. There is a shift from manual schema matching, done by human experts, to automatic matching, using various heuristics (schema matchers). In this work, we consider the problem of linearly combining the results of a set of schema matchers. We propose the use of machine learning algorithms to learn the optimal weight assignments, given a set of schema matchers. We also suggest the use of genetic algorithms to improve the process efficiency.