Experiments on the Derivation of Similarities and Type Conflicts

Abstract

This chapter is the first one devoted to describe experiments we have carried out on ICGO databases to verify the validity of our techniques. It has a twofold purpose: on the one hand, it presents the databases we have used, on the other hand, it describes the experiments carried out on those databases. More in particular, in the first section we describe the ICGO databases and the ICGO Data Repository whereas the second section is devoted to describe six groups of databases which the experiments described in this thesis have been executed on. In the last six sections, we describe the extraction of synonymies, homonymies, type conflicts and object cluster similarities from the six groups of databases under consideration.

The material presented in this chapter is taken from [92,122,87,90,117,118].