Formal and Conceptual Comparison of Ontology Mapping Languages

@inproceedings{Brockmans2009FormalAC,
  title={Formal and Conceptual Comparison of Ontology Mapping Languages},
  author={Saartje Brockmans and Peter Haase and Luciano Serafini and Heiner Stuckenschmidt},
  booktitle={Modular Ontologies},
  year={2009}
}
The compositional approach where several existing ontologies are connected to form a large modular ontology relies on the representation of mappings between elements in the different participating ontologies. A number of languages have been proposed for this purpose that extend existing logical languages for ontologies in a non-standard way. In this chapter, we compare different proposals for such extensions on a formal level and show that these approaches exhibit fundamental differences with… 
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