Using ontology and rules to retrieve the semantics of disaster remote sensing data

Remote sensing data plays an important role in natural disaster management.However,with the increase of the variety and quantity of remote sensors,the problem of“knowledge barriers”arises when data users in disaster field retrieve remote sensing data.To improve this problem,this paper proposes an ontology and rule based retrieval(ORR)method to retrieve disaster remote sensing data,and this method introduces ontology technology to express earthquake disaster and remote sensing knowledge,on this basis,and realizes the task suitability reasoning of earthquake disaster remote sensing data,mining the semantic relationship between remote sensing metadata and disasters.The prototype system is built according to the ORR method,which is compared with the traditional method,using the ORR method to retrieve disaster remote sensing data can reduce the knowledge requirements of data users in the retrieval process and improve data retrieval efficiency.

Ontology based approach of semantic information integration

In order to solve the problem of semantic heterogeneity in information integration, an ontology based semantic information integration （OSII） model and its logical framework are proposed. The OSII adopts the hybrid ontology approach and uses OWL （web ontology language） as the ontology language. It obtains unified views from multiple sources by building mappings between local ontologies and the global ontology. A tree- based multi-strategy ontology mapping algorithm is proposed. The algorithm is achieved by the following four steps： pre-processing, name mapping, subtree mapping and remedy mapping. The advantages of this algorithm are： mapping in the compatible datatype categories and using heuristic rules can improve mapping efficiency; both linguistic and structural similarity are used to improve the accuracy of the similarity calculation; an iterative remedy is adopted to obtain correct and complete mappings. A challenging example is used to illustrate the validity of the algorithm. The OSII is realized to effectively solve the problem of semantic heterogeneity in information integration and to implement interoperability of multiple information sources.

Efficient semantic web service matching using common ontology

To solve the bottleneck problem in centralized service discovery methods,a novel architecture based on domain ontology for semantic service discovery is proposed.This distributed architecture can adjust the domain partition and allocate system resources automatically.The characteristics of this mechanism are analyzed,including scalability,self-organization and adaptability.In this mechanism,semantic web service discovery is separated into two parts.First,under balance tree topology,registry proxy can rapidly forward requests to the objective registry center,and avoid the bottleneck problem.Secondly,a semantic distance based service matching algorithm is proposed to promote the effect of service searching.The results of simulation experiments show that the proposed mechanism can serve as a scalable solution for semantic web service publication and discovery.And the improved matching algorithm has higher recall and precision than other algorithms.

Ontology and metadata for online learning resource repository management based on semantic web

An ontology and metadata for online learning resource repository management is constructed. First, based on the analysis of the use-case diagram, the upper ontology is illustrated which includes resource library ontology and user ontology, and evaluated from its function and implementation; then the corresponding class diagram, resource description framework （RDF） schema and extensible markup language （XML） schema are given. Secondly, the metadata for online learning resource repository management is proposed based on the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and the IEEE Learning Technologies Standards Committee Learning Object Metadata Working Group. Finally, the inference instance is shown, which proves the validity of ontology and metadata in online learning resource repository management.

Semantic analysis approach for construction of OWL ontology

A semantic analysis approach is proposed, by which semantic relationships between concepts are identified and defined, and then mapped or transformed to OWL （web ontology language） ontology. The most common abstractions （namely, inclusion, aggregation and association） and their implication in ontology are discussed; then the OWL implementation for three abstractions are analyzed and illustrated. Taxonomies, constraints on properties for each class, and the relations between taxonomies in OWL ontology are established after all the semantic relationships are identified and described. This research is the basis for the development of the ontology conceptual model （OCM） and the mapping from OCM to OWL ontology.

Bridge Ontology: A Multi-Ontologies-Based Approach for Semantic Annotation

Representing the relationships between ontologies is the key problem of semantic annotations based on multi-ontologies. Traditional approaches only had the ability of denoting the simple concept subsumption relations between ontologies. Through analyzing and classifying the relationships between ontologies, the idea of bridge ontology was proposed, which had the powerful capability of expressing the complex relationships between concepts and relationships between relations in multi-ontologies. Meanwhile, a new approach employing bridge ontology was proposed to deal with the multi-ontologies-based semantic annotation problem. The bridge ontology is a peculiar ontology, which can be created and maintained conveniently, and is effective in the multi-ontologies-based semantic annotation. The approach using bridge ontology has the advantages of low-cost, scalable, robust in the web circumstance, and avoiding the unnecessary ontology extending and integration. Key words semantic web - bridge ontology - multi-ontologies - semantic annotation CLC number TP 391 Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60373066, 60303024). National Grand Fundamental Research 973 Program of China (2002CB312000), National Re-search Foundation for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (20020286004)Biography: WANG Peng (1977-), male, Ph.D candidate, research direction: semantic web, ontology, and knowledge representation on the Web.

Semantic QoS Ontology and Semantic Service Ranking Approach for IoT services

Due to a rapid increase in the number of functionally equivalent web services at open and dynamic Io T service environment,Qo S has become a major discrimination factor to reflect the user's expectation and experience of using a service.There are different languages and models for expressing Qo S advertisements and requirements among service providers and consumers.Therefore,it leads to the issues of semantic interoperability of Qo S information and semantic similarity match between a semantic description of the service being requested by the service consumer,and a formal description of the service being offered by the service provider.In this paper,we propose a hierarchical two-layer semantic Qo S ontology to promote the description and declaration of Qo S-based service information in detail for any domain and application.And,we develop a semantic matchmaking algorithm to compare the web services according to their Qo S information and adopt analytical hierarchy process( AHP) to make decision for the ranked services depending on the Qo S criteria.The comparison study and experimental result show that our proposed system is superior to other service ranking approaches.

Using ontology semantics to improve text documents clustering

In order to improve the clustering results and select in the results, the ontology semantic is combined with document clustering. A new document clustering algorithm based WordNet in the phrase of document processing is proposed. First, every word vector by new entities is extended after the documents are represented by tf-idf. Then the feature extracting algorithm is applied for the documents. Finally, the algorithm of ontology aggregation clustering （OAC） is proposed to improve the result of document clustering. Experiments are based on the data set of Reuters 20 News Group, and experimental results are compared with the results obtained by mutual information（MI）. The conclusion draws that the proposed algorithm of document clustering based on ontology is better than the other existed clustering algorithms such as MNB, CLUTO, co-clustering, etc.

Knowledge Representation and Semantic Inference of Process Based on Ontology and Semantic Web Rule Language

The process inference cannot be achieved effectively by the traditional expert system,while the ontology and semantic technology could provide better solution to the knowledge acquisition and intelligent inference of expert system.The application mode of ontology and semantic technology on the process parameters recommendation are mainly investigated.Firstly,the content about ontology,semantic web rule language(SWRL)rules and the relative inference engine are introduced.Then,the inference method about process based on ontology technology and the SWRL rule is proposed.The construction method of process ontology base and the writing criterion of SWRL rule are described later.Finally,the results of inference are obtained.The mode raised could offer the reference to the construction of process knowledge base as well as the expert system's reusable process rule library.

Integrated Semantic Similarity Model Based on Ontology

To solve the problem of the inadequacy of semantic processing in the intelligent question answering system, an integrated semantic similarity model which calculates the semantic similarity using the geometric distance and information content is presented in this paper. With the help of interrelationship between concepts, the information content of concepts and the strength of the edges in the ontology network, we can calculate the semantic similarity between two concepts and provide information for the further calculation of the semantic similarity between user’s question and answers in knowledge base. The results of the experiments on the prototype have shown that the semantic problem in natural language processing can also be solved with the help of the knowledge and the abundant semantic information in ontology. More than 90% accuracy with less than 50 ms average searching time in the intelligent question answering prototype system based on ontology has been reached. The result is very satisfied. Key words intelligent question answering system - ontology - semantic similarity - geometric distance - information content CLC number TP39 Foundation item: Supported by the important science and technology item of China of “The 10th Five-year Plan” (2001BA101A05-04)Biography: LIU Ya-jun (1953-), female, Associate professor, research direction: software engineering, information processing, data-base application.

The Application of Ontology in Semantic Discovery for GeoData Web Service

GeoData Web service is an important way to achieve the integration and sharing of heterogeneous geospatial data at present. However, due to the complexity of GeoData and no sematic supporting Webservice discovery, it is very hard for data users to accurately find the GeoData WebService they really want. In order to make it easy for users to quickly and accurately find the GeoData Web Service they want in semantic level, this article firstly, constructs MetaData Ontololy, and uses MetaData Ontology to describe the related semantic information for GeoData Web Service. Then it comes up with a new way of computing the degree of semantic similarity among concepts based on Ontology. Finally, it realizes the automatic discovery for GeoData Web Service based on semantic matching. The experiment result shows that the way in this article can dramatically improve the accuracy and intelligence of GeoData Web Service discovery.

Ontology-Based Semantic Annotation for Problem Set Archives in the Web

Aimming at the difficulty in getting semantic informarton from each problem in problem set archives, We propose a new method of ontology based semantic annotation for problem set archives, which utilizes programming knowledge domain ontology to add semantic annotations to problems in the Web. The system we developed adds semantic annotation for each problem in the form of Extensible Makeup Language. Our method overcomes the difficulty of extracting semantics from problem set archives and the efficiency of this method is demonstrated through a case study. Having semantic annotations of problems, a student can efficiently locate the problems that logically corre spond to his knowledge.

Geospatial Semantic Interoperability Based on Ontology

In GIS field, great varieties of information from different domains are involved in order to solve actual problems. But usually spatial information is stored in diverse spatial databases, manipulated by different GIS platforms. Semantic heterogeneity is caused due to the distinctions of conception explanations among various GIS implements. It will result in the information obtaining and understanding gaps for spatial data sharing and usage. An ontology-based model for spatial information semantic interoperability is put forward after the comprehensive review of progress in ontology theory, methodology and application research in GIS domain.

Ontology Based Ocean Knowledge Representation for Semantic Information Retrieval

The drastic growth of coastal observation sensors results in copious data that provide weather information.The intricacies in sensor-generated big data are heterogeneity and interpretation,driving high-end Information Retrieval(IR)systems.The Semantic Web(SW)can solve this issue by integrating data into a single platform for information exchange and knowledge retrieval.This paper focuses on exploiting the SWbase systemto provide interoperability through ontologies by combining the data concepts with ontology classes.This paper presents a 4-phase weather data model:data processing,ontology creation,SW processing,and query engine.The developed Oceanographic Weather Ontology helps to enhance data analysis,discovery,IR,and decision making.In addition to that,it also evaluates the developed ontology with other state-of-the-art ontologies.The proposed ontology’s quality has improved by 39.28%in terms of completeness,and structural complexity has decreased by 45.29%,11%and 37.7%in Precision and Accuracy.Indian Meteorological Satellite INSAT-3D’s ocean data is a typical example of testing the proposed model.The experimental result shows the effectiveness of the proposed data model and its advantages in machine understanding and IR.

Comparison of Ontology-Based Semantic-Similarity Measures in the Biomedical Text

In recent years, there are many types of semantic similarity measures, which are used to measure the similarity between two concepts. It is necessary to define the differences between the measures, performance, and evaluations. The major contribution of this paper is to choose the best measure among different similarity measures that give us good result with less error rate. The experiment was done on a taxonomy built to measure the semantic distance between two concepts in the health domain, which are represented as nodes in the taxonomy. Similarity measures methods were evaluated relative to human experts’ ratings. Our experiment was applied on the ICD10 taxonomy to determine the similarity value between two concepts. The similarity between 30 pairs of the health domains has been evaluated using different types of semantic similarity measures equations. The experimental results discussed in this paper have shown that the Hoa A. Nguyen and Hisham Al-Mubaid measure has achieved high matching score by the expert’s judgment.

Analysis on the semantic relationships in event structures on the basis of ontology

Ontology is a distinct, canonical and shared system of concepts, which is oriented to objects （fields）. Nowadays, every discipline or field attaches great importance to establishing and applying ontology for research. And ontologies that related to linguistics are WordNet by cognitive linguist Prof. Miller from PrincetonUniversity, FrameNet by Prof. Fillmore from California University, Berkeley, GOLD （General Ontology for Language Description） by Dr. Farrar from Arizona University and DOLCE （Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering） by CNR cognitive science and technology research centre of Italy, etc. This article focuses on event structures hot discussed in cognitive linguistics, through an ontologically analytical approach, and gives a systematic description on the concepts and semantic relationships involved in the event structures. Any event structure can be represented through the 7S schema. ＂For some purpose, somebody does something for someone with some means, sometimes and somewhere＂. Therefore, an event consists of 7 conceptual domains： purpose, actor, action, object, facility, location and time. In the article, the main concepts of the 7 domains and over 20 semantic relationships between these domains are described in detail and illustrated by some examples.

Ontology Based Resolution of Semantic Conflicts in Information Integration

Semantic conflict is the conflict caused by using different ways in heterogeneous systems to express the same entity in reality. This prevents information integration from accomplishing semantic coherence. Since ontology helps to solve semantic problems, this area has become a hot topic in information integration. In this paper, we introduce semantic conflict into information integration of heterogeneous applications. We discuss the origins and categories of the conflict, and present an ontology-based schema mapping approach to eliminate semantic conflicts. Key words ontology - CCSOL - semantic conflict - schema mapping CLC number TP 301 Biography: LU Han (1980-), male, Master candidate, research direction: ontology and information integration.

Ontology-Based News Linking for Semantic Temporal Queries

Daily newspapers publish a tremendous amount of information disseminated through the Internet.Freely available and easily accessible large online repositories are not indexed and are in an un-processable format.The major hindrance in developing and evaluating existing/new monolingual text in an image is that it is not linked and indexed.There is no method to reuse the online news images because of the unavailability of standardized benchmark corpora,especially for South Asian languages.The corpus is a vital resource for developing and evaluating text in an image to reuse local news systems in general and specifically for the Urdu language.Lack of indexing,primarily semantic indexing of the daily news items,makes news items impracticable for any querying.Moreover,the most straightforward search facility does not support these unindexed news resources.Our study addresses this gap by associating and marking the newspaper images with one of the widely spoken but under-resourced languages,i.e.,Urdu.The present work proposed a method to build a benchmark corpus of news in image form by introducing a web crawler.The corpus is then semantically linked and annotated with daily news items.Two techniques are proposed for image annotation,free annotation and fixed cross examination annotation.The second technique got higher accuracy.Build news ontology in protégéusing OntologyWeb Language(OWL)language and indexed the annotations under it.The application is also built and linked with protégéso that the readers and journalists have an interface to query the news items directly.Similarly,news items linked together will provide complete coverage and bring together different opinions at a single location for readers to do the analysis themselves.

Ontology-Based Crime News Semantic Retrieval System

Every day,the media reports tons of crimes that are considered by a large number of users and accumulate on a regular basis.Crime news exists on the Internet in unstructured formats such as books,websites,documents,and journals.From such homogeneous data,it is very challenging to extract relevant information which is a time-consuming and critical task for the public and law enforcement agencies.Keyword-based Information Retrieval(IR)systems rely on statistics to retrieve results,making it difficult to obtain relevant results.They are unable to understandthe user’s query and thus facewordmismatchesdue to context changes andthe inevitable semanticsof a given word.Therefore,such datasets need to be organized in a structured configuration,with the goal of efficiently manipulating the data while respecting the semantics of the data.An ontological semantic IR systemis needed that can find the right investigative information and find important clues to solve criminal cases.The semantic system retrieves information in view of the similarity of the semantics among indexed data and user queries.In this paper,we develop anontology-based semantic IRsystemthat leverages the latest semantic technologies including resource description framework(RDF),semantic protocol and RDF query language(SPARQL),semantic web rule language(SWRL),and web ontology language(OWL).We have conducted two experiments.In the first experiment,we implemented a keyword-based textual IR systemusing Apache Lucene.In the second experiment,we implemented a semantic systemthat uses ontology to store the data and retrieve precise results with high accuracy using SPARQL queries.The keyword-based system has filtered results with 51%accuracy,while the semantic system has filtered results with 95%accuracy,leading to significant improvements in the field and opening up new horizons for researchers.

Evaluation of Multistrategy Classifiers for Heterogeneous Ontology Matching On the Semantic Web

On the semantic web, data interoperability and ontology heterogeneity are becoming ever more important issues. To resolve these problems, multiple classification methods can be used to learn the matching between ontologies. The paper uses the general statistic classification method to discover category features in data instances and use the first-order learning algorithm FOIL to exploit the semantic relations among data instances. When using multistrategy learning approach, a central problem is the evaluation of multistrategy classifiers. The goal and the conditions of using multistrategy classifiers within ontology matching are different from the ones for general text classification. This paper describes the combination rule of multiple classifiers called the Best Outstanding Champion, which is suitable for heterogeneous ontology mapping. On the prediction results of individual methods, the method can well accumulate the correct matching of alone classifier. The experiments show that the approach achieves high accuracy on real-world domain.