Optimizing Ontology Alignments by Using Genetic Algorithms

Authors: 
Martinez-Gil, J; Alba, E; Aldana-Montes, JF
Author: 
Martinez-Gil, J
Alba, E
Aldana-Montes, JF
Year: 
2008
URL: 
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.143.660&rep=rep1&type=pdf#page=36
Citations: 
15
Citations range: 
10 - 49

In this work we present GOAL (Genetics for Ontology Alignments)
a new approach to compute the optimal ontology alignment function
for a given ontology input set. Although this problem could be solved
by an exhaustive search when the number of similarity measures is low,
our method is expected to scale better for a high number of measures.
Our approach is a genetic algorithm which is able to work with several
goals: maximizing the alignment precision, maximizing the alignment recall,
maximizing the f-measure or reducing the number of false positives.
Moreover, we test it here by combining some cutting-edge similarity measures
over a standard benchmark, and the results obtained show several
advantages in relation to other techniques.