Integrating Japanese Wikipedia Ontology and Japanese WordNet using Ontology Alignment

Abstract

Japanese Wikipedia Ontology (JWO), which we have constructed semi-automatically from Japanese Wikipedia, has problems with a lack of upper classes, and appropriate definitions of class-instance relationships and properties. The purpose of our research is to complement the upper classes in JWO by integrating JWO and Japanese WordNet (JWN). In order to accomplish this, we develop tools which support the user to refine the class-instance relationships, to identify JWO classes to be aligned with JWN synsets, and to align the JWO classes with the JWN synsets through user interaction. In addition, we integrate JWO and JWN by using a domain ontology development environment, DODDLE-OWL.