[topicmapmail] Merging of Distributed Topic Maps based on the Subject Identity Measure (SIM) Approach

[Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Inf. Lutz Maicher [Universität Leipzi g]]

Dear all,

I summarised our SIM approach for (really subject based) merging of
distributed Topic Maps in a short paper. See:

[1] http://www.lutzmaicher.de/PUBLIKATIONEN/[maic04cFINAL].pdf

We are still interested in a vital discussion about the problem we want to
solve. We don't share the optimism that PSI repositories will be widely
adopted in distributed and heterogeneous communities. Therefore we
introduced our SIM approach. The SIM is a measure, which determines how
closely related the Subject of two Topics might be. This decision is made
automatically and only based on the Content provided by the regarding Topic
(Maps). For more details, we suggest a closer look to our papers.

Best regards,
Lutz Maicher
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Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Inf. Lutz Maicher
Graduiertenkolleg Wissensrepräsentation | Universität Leipzig
Abteilung Automatische Sprachverarbeitung | Institut für Informatik |
Augustusplatz 10-11 | 04109 Leipzig

fon 0341 97 32 303 | mail maicher@informatik.uni-leipzig.de
http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~maicher/

> Hello Lutz
>
> Really interesting stuff!
>
> Just a general remark, before maybe more technical ones come from others :
by an amazing
> coincidence, two weeks ago, I launched a blog [1] that I want to focus on
the issue of
> subject identification. The last post two days ago [2] was about
identification as
> experimental protocol ... and certainly SIM is really a step forward in
this direction.
>
> [1] http://universimmedia.blogspot.com/
> Sort of brainstorming place for this kind of issues. Jack Park has already
joined as a
> collaborator.
> Anyone interested to jump in, through comments and posts, is welcome.
>
> [2]
http://universimmedia.blogspot.com/2004/08/identification-as-experimental.html
>
>
> Bernard Vatant
> Senior Consultant
> Knowledge Engineering
> Mondeca - www.mondeca.com
> bernard.vatant@mondeca.com
>
> Bernard Vatant
> Senior Consultant
> Knowledge Engineering
> Mondeca - www.mondeca.com
> bernard.vatant@mondeca.com
>
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> Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Inf. Lutz Maicher [Universität Leipzig]
> Envoyé : mardi 31 août 2004 15:50
> À : topicmapmail@infoloom.com
> Objet : [topicmapmail] Merging of Distributed Topic Maps based on the
Subject Identity
> Measure (SIM) Approach
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> back from summer holiday my colleague and I finished our paper "Merging of
Distributed
> Topic Maps based on the Subject Identity Measure (SIM) Approach" (see
> http://www.lutzmaicher.de/PUBLIKATIONEN/%5Bmaic04b%5D.pdf or
> http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~maicher/forschung2.html) for LIT
2004.
>
> We adress with this paper the question how distributed topic maps can be
merged if the
> subjects of their topics aren't described by a centralised vocabulary
(PSIs). We developed
> a (lightweighted) approach wich yields for our example set very good
results.
>
> For further research we need general feedback from the community. Do we
need such methods?
> Where shortcomings of our approach are seen? etc.
>
> In addition we are searching answers to the following three questions:
> 1. Which other methods (for example from schema matching) will be fruitful
to use in the
> field of automatic topic map merging?
> 2. Which topic map metrics exist? We need objective criteria for topic
maps to evaluate
> the quality of different methods (correlation between such metrics and the
yielded
> quality).
> 3. Where we can find other example sets? We need additional topic maps for
evaluation
> purposes.
>
> We are highly interested in your comments,
> greatings from gray Leipzig
> Lutz Maicher
>
>
____________________________________________________________________________
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> Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Inf. Lutz Maicher
> Graduiertenkolleg Wissensrepräsentation | Universität Leipzig
> Abteilung Automatische Sprachverarbeitung | Institut für Informatik |
Augustusplatz 10-11
> | 04109 Leipzig
>
> fon 0341 97 32 303 | mail maicher@informatik.uni-leipzig.de
> http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~maicher/
>
>