The PROMPT suite: Interactive tools for ontology merging and mapping
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 59 (6):
983-1024 (2003)Abstract
Researchers in the ontology-design field have developed the content for ontologies in many
domain areas. This distributed nature of ontology development has led to a large number of
ontologies covering overlapping domains. In order for these ontologies to be reused, they first
need to be merged or aligned to one another. We developed a suite of tools for managing multiple
ontologies. These suite provides users with a uniform framework for comparing, aligning, and
merging ontologies, maintaining versions, translating between different formalisms. Two of the
tools in the suite support semi-automatic ontology merging: iPrompt is an interactive ontologymerging
tool that guides the user through the merging process, presenting him with suggestions
for next steps and identifying inconsistencies and potential problems. AnchorPrompt uses
a graph structure of ontologies to find correlation between concepts and to provide additional
information for iPrompt.
