Taxonomy Merging Task

A Taxonomy Merging Task is a graph database merging task whose input are taxonomy databases.

• Context:
  • Input: two or more Taxonomy Databases.
  • output: a single Taxonomy Database.
  • It can be solved by an Taxonomy Merging System that applies an (Taxonomy Merging Algorithm.
  • It can be supported by an Taxonomy Mapping Task and a Taxonomy Node-based Classification Task.
• Example(s):
  • a Product Taxonomy Merging Task.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Ontology Merging Task.
  • Product Database Merging Task.
  • Customer Database Merging Task.
• See: Taxonomy Management, Glossary Management.

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References

2014

• (Raunich & Rahm, 2014) ⇒ Salvatore Raunich, and Erhard Rahm. (2014). “Target-driven Merging of Taxonomies with Atom.” In: Information Systems, 42.

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