TermPicker: Enabling the Reuse of Vocabulary Terms by Exploiting Data from the Linked Open Data Cloud - An Extended Technical Report

• Main Authors: Schaible, Johann, Gottron, Thomas, Scherp, Ansgar
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 17-12-2015
• Subjects: Computer Science - Databases; Computer Science - Information Retrieval
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.05685

Deciding which vocabulary terms to use when modeling data as Linked Open Data
(LOD) is far from trivial. Choosing too general vocabulary terms, or terms from
vocabularies that are not used by other LOD datasets, is likely to lead to a
data representation, which will be harder to understand by humans and to be
consumed by Linked data applications. In this technical report, we propose
TermPicker: a novel approach for vocabulary reuse by recommending RDF types and
properties based on exploiting the information on how other data providers on
the LOD cloud use RDF types and properties to describe their data. To this end,
we introduce the notion of so-called schema-level patterns (SLPs). They capture
how sets of RDF types are connected via sets of properties within some data
collection, e.g., within a dataset on the LOD cloud. TermPicker uses such SLPs
and generates a ranked list of vocabulary terms for reuse. The lists of
recommended terms are ordered by a ranking model which is computed using the
machine learning approach Learning To Rank (L2R). TermPicker is evaluated based
on the recommendation quality that is measured using the Mean Average Precision
(MAP) and the Mean Reciprocal Rank at the first five positions (MRR@5). Our
results illustrate an improvement of the recommendation quality by 29% - 36%
when using SLPs compared to the beforehand investigated baselines of
recommending solely popular vocabulary terms or terms from the same vocabulary.
The overall best results are achieved using SLPs in conjunction with the
Learning To Rank algorithm Random Forests.