Maciej Gawinecki
Research in abbreviation expansion
in schemata of structural and semi-structural data

Lexical annotation of schema elements can improve effectiveness of schema matching [SB 2008]. However, it cannot be applied for those schema elements, that contain abbreviations. In this work we address this problem by providing a new technique for abbreviation expansion in context of schema of structured and semi-structured data.

[SB 2009] Sonia Bergamaschi, Laura Po & Serena Sorrentino (2008), "Automatic annotation for mapping discovery in data integration systems", In SEBD., pp. 334-341. [Abstract] [BibTeX]

Abstract: Lexical annotation is the explicit inclusion of the "meaning" of a data source element according to a lexical resource. Accuracy of semi-automatic lexical annotator tools is poor on real-world schemata due to the abundance of non-dictionary compound nouns. It follows that a large set of relationships among different schemata is discovered, including a great amount of false positive relationships. In this paper we propose a new method for the annotation of non-dictionary compound nouns, which draws its inspiration from works in the natural language disambiguation area. The method extends the lexical annotation module of the MOMIS data integration system.

BibTeX: @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sebd/BergamaschiPS08, author = {Sonia Bergamaschi and Laura Po and Serena Sorrentino}, title = {Automatic annotation for mapping discovery in data integration systems}, booktitle = {SEBD}, year = {2008}, pages = {334-341} }

Publications

@inproceedings{Bergamaschi2009,
  author = {Sonia Bergamaschi and Serena Sorrentino and Maciej Gawinecki and Laura Po},
  title = {Schema Normalization for Improving Schema Matching},
  booktitle = {28th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2009)},
  year = {2009},
  note = {(to appear)}
}

@inproceedings{Gawinecki2009,
  author = {Maciej Gawinecki},
  title = {Abbreviation Expansion In Lexical Annotation of Schema},
  booktitle = {1st International Workshop on Interoperability through Semantic Data and Service Integration},
  year = {2009},
  note = {(to appear)}
}

@techreport{tr/Gawinecki2008a,
  author = {Maciej Gawinecki},
  title = {On Selecting Online Abbreviation Dictionary},
  year = {2009},
  number = {XXX},
  url = {http://mars.ing.unimo.it/wiki/images/1/1a/TR-AbbrDictSurvey.pdf}
}

Downloads

• A mapping from categorization system of Abbreviations.com online dictionary to WordNet Domains 3.1. The comments on mapping particular categories can be found in here.
• A user-defined abbreviation dictionary containing standard schema prefixes and suffixes.
• A list of English stop words adapted from Onix Text Retrieval Toolkit.
• A list of English words taken from Ispell spelling correction tool.

• The dataset taken from Amalgam integration benchmark (in ODL_I³ format).
• Manually prepared output reference for tokenizing, identifying and expansion methods (in ODL_I³ format).

• The presentation slides for 1st International Workshop on Interoperability through Semantic Data and Service Integration.

Acknowledgements

Evaluation results