UMBEL

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UMBEL
Developer(s) Structured Dynamics
Initial release 16 July 2008
Stable release UMBEL 1.20 / 21 April 2015[1]
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License Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Website umbel.org

UMBEL (Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer) is a logically organized knowledge graph of 35,000 concepts and entity types that can be used in information science for relating information from disparate sources to one another. The grounding of this information occurs by common reference to the permanent URIs for the UMBEL concepts; the connections within the UMBEL upper ontology enable concepts from sources at different levels of abstraction or specificity to be logically related. Since UMBEL is an open source extract of the OpenCyc knowledge base, it can also take advantage of the reasoning capabilities within Cyc.

UMBEL has two means to promote the semantic interoperability of information:.[2] It is:

Diagram showing Linking Open Data datasets. UMBEL is near the hub, below and to the right of the central DBpedia.

UMBEL is written in the Semantic Web languages of SKOS and OWL 2. It is a class structure used in Linked Data, along with OpenCyc, YAGO, and the DBpedia ontology. Besides data integration, UMBEL has been used to aid concept search,[3][4] concept definitions,[5] query ranking,[6] ontology integration,[7] and ontology consistency checking.[8] It has also been used to build large ontologies [9] and for online question answering systems.[10]

Including OpenCyc, UMBEL has about 64,000 formal mappings to DBpedia, PROTON, GeoNames, and schema.org, and provides linkages to more than 2 million Wikipedia pages (English version). All of its reference concepts and mappings are organized under a hierarchy of 32 different "super types",[11] which are mostly disjoint from one another. As of version 1.05, UMBEL was split into "core" and "geo" modules (for when the GeoNames mappings are not used).[12]

UMBEL was first released in July 2008. Version 1.00 was released in February 2011.[13] Its current release is version 1.20.[14]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "UMBEL Version 1.20 Released". UMBEL Web site. 21 April 2015.
  2. ↑ "UMBEL (Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer)". UMBEL Web Site. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
  3. ↑ Sah, M; Wade, V (2012). "A novel concept-based search for the web of data using UMBEL and a fuzzy retrieval model" (PDF). The Semantic Web: Research and Applications. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer (published 27 May 2012). pp. 103–118.
  4. ↑ Sah, M; Wade, V (2013). "Personalized concept-based search and exploration on the web of data using results categorization" (PDF). The Semantic Web: Semantics and Big Data. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer (published 26 May 2013). pp. 532–547.
  5. ↑ Ballatore, Andrea (2016). "Prolegomena for an Ontology of Place" (PDF). In Onsrud, Harlan; Kuhn, Werner. Advancing Geographic Information Systems. Needham, MA: GSDI Association Press. pp. 91–103.
  6. ↑ Stecher, R; Costache, S; Niederée, C; Nejdl, W (7 Jun 2010). "Query ranking in information integration" (PDF). Advanced Information Systems Engineering (Springer Berlin Heidelberg): 230–235.
  7. ↑ Damova, M; et, al. (2012). "Creation and Integration of Reference Ontologies for Efficient LOD Management". In Pazienza, Maria Teresa. Semi-Automatic Ontology Development: Processes and Resources. IGI Global. pp. 162–199.
  8. ↑ Sheng, Z; Wang, X; Shi, H; Feng, Z (26 Oct 2012). "Checking and handling inconsistency of DBpedia". Web Information Systems and Mining (Springer Berlin Heidelberg): 480–488.
  9. ↑ Yablonsky, S (Jun 2009). "Semantic Web framework for development of very large ontologies" (PDF). Polibits (39): 19–26.
  10. ↑ Bishop, B; et, al. (Jan 2011). "Factforge: A fast track to the web of data" (PDF). Semantic Web 2 (2): 157–166.
  11. ↑ See Annex G in the UMBEL specifications.
  12. ↑ See the release announcement.
  13. ↑ See the release announcement.
  14. ↑ See http://umbel.org/resources/news/umbel-v-1-20-released

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