Experiences on the Evaluation of DSSim: A Multi-Agent Ontology Mapping System

Abstract

This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of DSSim DSSim stands for Similarity based on Dempster-Shafer, our ontology alignment system. The authors participated several years in the annual evaluation defined by the Ontology Alignment Initiative OAEI. Each year their DSSim was evolved and participated in more difficult tracks defined by the Ontology Alignment Initiative. In fact, DSSim obtained exceptional results in the OAEI-2008 Evaluation. In this evaluation OAEI-2008, DSSim participated on all given tracks namely, benchmark, anatomy, fao, directory, mldirectory, library, very large crosslingual resources and conference. The challenges presented by each track were addressed by the DSSim team.