Ontology-Based Data Instantiation Using Web Service

Abstract

The Semantic Web aims at creating a platform where information has its semantics and can be understood and processed by computers themselves with minimum human interference. Ontology theory and its related technology have been developed to help construct such a platform because ontology promises to encode certain levels of semantics for information and offers a set of common vocabulary for people or computer to communicate with. In this article, we introduced the open-source software called ontology instantiate. This software has been created for book ontology construction and instantiation using web services. This software helps users to instantiate ontology of book information on Amazon web site. This software also allows the user to merge another book ontology in its produced ontology and integrates them in the form unit ontology. This software for integration of these ontologies uses a wide range of similarity measures, including semantic similarity, string-based similarity and structural similarity. The tree is used for investigating the structural similarity. Dictionaries like Wikipedia, Word Net, Google and Yahoo is used for investigating semantic similarity and string-based similarity.