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Reverse Ontology Matching
Ontology Matching aims to find the semantic correspondences between
ontologies that belong to a single domain but that have been developed
separately. However, there are still some problem areas to be solved,
because experts are still needed to supervise the matching processes and
an efficient way to reuse the alignments has not yet been found. We
propose a novel technique named Reverse Ontology Matching, which aims to
find the matching functions that were used in the original process. The
use of these functions is very useful for aspects such as modeling
behavior from experts, performing matching-by-example, reverse
engineering existing ontology matching tools or compressing ontology
alignment repositories. Moreover, the results obtained from a widely
used benchmark dataset provide evidence of the effectiveness of this
approach.