A graph-based approach for extracting terminological properties of elements of XML documents

Abstract

XML is rapidly becoming a standard for information exchange over the Web. Web providers and applications using XML for representing and exchanging their data make their information available in such a way that interoperability can be easily reached. However in order to guarantee both the exchange of XML documents and the interoperability between information providers, it is often needed to single out semantic similarity properties relating concepts of different XML documents. This paper gives a contribution to this framework by proposing a technique for extracting synonymies and homonymies. The derivation technique is based on a rich conceptual model (called SDR-Network) which is used to represent concepts expressed in XML documents as well as the semantic relationships holding among them.