Christian Meilicke
 

Researcher

B6, 26 Room B 1.14
Tel.: +49 621 181 2484

christian (at) informatik.uni-mannheim.de


Research topics

My research is concerned with the problem of Ontology Matching. Ontology Matching (sometimes also refered to as Ontology Alignment) is about finding correspondences between elements (e.g. concepts or roles) of two ontologies covering the same or a similar domain. The matching process can be divided into two steps: First, a set of matching hypotheses is generated. Then, a subset of these hypotheses is chosen as final alignment. In my work I focus on several problems related to the second step. In particular, I suggest the use of logical reasoning to ensure the consistency of the final alignment.

If you are interested in this approach, I suggest to read a paper presented at the ESWC Phd-Symposium "The Relevance of Reasoning and Alignment Incoherence in Ontology Matching". It contains a nice introduction and overview over the work done so far.

My current work is best reflected in the 2009 RR-paper, which describes a stable an efficient algorithm for incoherence based alignment debugging in detail.


Publications

Articles:
1.   Christian Meilicke, Heiner Stuckenschmidt and Andrei Tamilin. Reasoning Support for Mapping Revision. Journal of Logic and Computation, 2009.
Contributions to Conferences:
2.   Jan Noessner, Mathias Niepert, Christian Meilicke and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. Leveraging Terminological Structure for Object Reconciliation. European Semantic Web Conference - ESWC, 2010.
3.   Kai Eckert, Christian Meilicke and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. Improving Ontology Matching using Meta-level Learning. Proceedings of the 6th european semantic web conference (ESWC-09), Heraklion, Greece, ACM, New York, 2009.
4.   Christian Meilicke, Heiner Stuckenschmidt and Ondrej Svab-Zamazal. A Reasoning-Based Support Tool for Ontology Mapping Evaluation. Proceedings of the European Semantic Web Conference (Demo-Paper ESWC-09), Heraklion, Greece, 2009.
5.   Christian Meilicke and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. An Efficient Method for Computing Alignment Diagnoses. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR-09), Chantilly, Virginia, USA, 2009.
6.   Christian Meilicke, Heiner Stuckenschmidt and Andrei Tamilin. Supporting Manual Mapping Revision using Logical Reasoning. Proceedings of the Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-08), 2008.
7.   Christian Meilicke, Johanna Völker and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. Learning Disjointness for Debugging Mappings between Lightweight Ontologies. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW-08), Best Paper Award, 2008.
8.   Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Livia Predoiu and Christian Meilicke. Learning Complex Ontology Mappings - A Challenge for ILP Research. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP-08), 2008.
9.   Christian Meilicke and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. Applying Logical Constraints to Ontology Matching. Proceedings of the 30th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-07), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, 2007, 4667, 99-113.
10.   Christian Meilicke, Heiner Stuckenschmidt and Andrei Tamilin. Repairing Ontology Mappings. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), Vancouver, Canada, 2007.
Contributions to Workshops:
11.   Christian Meilicke. The Relevance of Reasoning and Alignment Incoherence in Ontology Matching. Proccedings of the ESWC 2009 PhD Symposium, Best Paper Award, Heraklion, Greece, 2009.
12.   Dominique Ritze, Christian Meilicke, Ondrej Svab-Zamazal and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. A pattern-based ontology matching approach for detecting complex correspondences. Proceedings of the ISWC 2009 Workshop on Ontology Matching, Washington, DC, USA, 2009.
13.   Jérôme Euzenat, Alfio Ferrara, Laura Hollink, Antoine Isaac, Cliff Joslyn, Véronique Malaisé, Christian Meilicke, Andriy Nikolov, Juan Pane, Marta Sabou, François Scharffe, Pavel Shvaiko, Vassilis Spiliopoulos, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Ondřej Šváb-Zamazal, Vojtěch Svátek, Cássia Trojahn dos Santos, George Vouros and Shenghui Wang. Results of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative 2009. Proceedings of the ISWC 2009 Workshop on Ontology Matching, Washington DC, USA, 2009.
14.   Christian Meilicke and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. Incoherence as a Basis for Measuring the Quality of Ontology Mappings. Proceedings of the ISWC 2008 Workshop on Ontology Matching, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2008.
15.   Caterina Caracciolo, Jérôme Euzenat, Laura Hollink, Ryutaro Ichise, Antoine Isaac, Véronique Malaisé, Christian Meilicke, Juan Pane, Pavel Shvaiko, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Ondrej Šváb-Zamazal and Vojtech Svátek. Results of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative 2008. Proceedings of the ISWC 2008 Workshop on Ontology Matching, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2008.
16.   Ondrej Svab-Zamazal, Vojtech Svatek, Christian Meilicke and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. Testing the Impact of Pattern-Based Ontology Refactoring on Ontology Matching Results. Proceedings of the ISWC 2008 Workshop on Ontology Matching (Poster Paper), Karlsruhe, Germany, 2008.
17.   Christian Meilicke and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. Analyzing Mapping Extraction Approaches. Proceedings of the ISWC 2007 Workshop on Ontology Matching, Busan, Korea, 2007.
18.   Jérôme Euzenat, Antoine Isaac, Christian Meilicke, Pavel Shvaiko, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vojtech Svátek, Willem Robert van Hage and Mikalai Yatskevich. Results of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative 2007. Proceedings of the ISWC 2007 Workshop on Ontology Matching, Busan, Korea, 2007.
19.   Christian Meilicke, Heiner Stuckenschmidt and Andrei Tamilin. Improving Automatically Created Mappings using Logical Reasoning. Proceedings of the ISWC 2006 Workshop on Ontology Matching, Athens, GA, USA, 2006.
Technical Reports:
20.   Christian Meilicke and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. An Efficient Method for Computing a Local Optimal Alignment Diagnosis. University Mannheim, Department of Computer Science, Chair for Artificial Intelligence, 2009.