国外本体协调研究前沿进展及热点分析

Recent Progress and Future Trends in the Research of Ontology Mediation:Evidence from Abroad

近年来国际学术界在本体对应研究方面呈现三个主要特征:一是投入了更多关注,使相关研究日臻成熟;二是在开放语义网络环境下,研究人员更青睐于多本体的匹配与对应,并且本体对应已成为学术界构建适于分布式网络结构的多本体协同系统的主要手段;三是越来越多的研究成果已经从基础理论研究转向了针对具体问题的实证研究。但开放性、分布式的语义Web环境对现有不同本体间的协调应用提出了挑战。通过对2000年以来国际学术界关于本体协调相关文献和研究成果的梳理,阐明了以本体映射为核心的本体协调各要素之间的关系,并对本体合并、本体集成与本体对应三条本体协调主要发展路径的前沿热点进行了分析,指出未来本体协调的相关研究将继续沿着"本体构建→本体合并→本体集成→本体对应"这一总体路径向前发展。

Ontology as a kind of ideal semantic Web annotation system has become the undisputed facts, however, open and distributed semantic Web environment puts forward the challenge to the Interoperable applications between the existing different ontologies. Based on the relevant literatures and research results on ontology mediation in international academic since 2000, this article expounds the relationship among the various elements with ontology mapping as the core of ontology mediation, and analyses the hot front of three main development paths including ontology merging, ontology integration and ontology alignment （aligning or matching）. Finally, it proposes a research path, ＂ontology construction →ontology merging →ontology integration→ontology alignment/aligning/matching＂, and points out some future development trends in order to provide references for domestic ontology mediation study. 1 fig. 1 tab. 34 refs.