{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"FCA-MERGE: Bottom-Up Merging of Ontologies","authors":[{"name":"Gerd Stumme","slug":"gerd-stumme","given":"Gerd","family":"Stumme","affiliation":""},{"name":"Alexander Maedche","slug":"alexander-maedche","given":"Alexander","family":"Maedche","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Ontologies have been established for knowledge sharing and are widely used as a means for conceptually structuring domains of interest. With the growing usage of ontologies, the problem of overlapping knowledge in a common domain becomes critical. We propose the new method FCA–M ERGE for merging ontologies following a bottom-up approach which offers a structural description of the merging process. The method is guided by application-specific instances of the given source ontologies, that are to be merged. We apply techniques from natural language processing and formal concept analysis to derive a lattice of concepts as a structural result of FCA–M ERGE . The generated result is then explored and transformed into the merged ontology with human interaction.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2001/32","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2001/0032.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2001/32.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2001/bibtex/32","volume":{"slug":"2001","title":"Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2001","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2001/","year":2001,"location":"Seattle, Washington, USA","dates":"","editors":"","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":null,"track":"","number":32,"pages":{"first":225,"last":233},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}