Evaluating and comparing ontology alignment systems: An MCDM approach

Ontology alignment is vital in Semantic Web technologies with numerous applications in diverse disciplines. Due to diversity and abundance of ontology alignment systems, a proper evaluation can portray the evolution of ontology alignment and depicts the efficiency of a system for a particular domain. Evaluation can help system designers...

Ontology matching evaluation: A statistical perspective

This paper proposes statistical approaches to test if the difference between two ontology matchers is real. Specifically, the performances of the matchers over multiple data sets are obtained and based on their performances, the conclusion can be drawn whether one method is better than one another or not. To do so, the paired t-test and...