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  • 2008-07-10: Falcon-AO 2008 is released! Please download it from here. Alternatively, you can download a PPC64, IBM JDK, Linux version from here.

  • 2008-06-12: Our paper 'Matching large ontologies: a divide-and-conquer approach' (Wei Hu, Yuzhong Qu and Gong Cheng) is accepted by Data & Knowledge Engineering.

  • 2008-04-15: Our paper 'Falcon-AO: a practical ontology matching system' (Wei Hu and Yuzhong Qu) is accepted by Journal of Web Semantics.

  • 2007-09-01: Falcon-AO v0.7 is released! Please download it from here. In addition, click here to see the preliminary results of Falcon-AO on OAEI 2007.

  • 2007-07-18: Our paper 'Discovering simple mappings between relational database schemas and ontologies' (Wei Hu and Yuzhong Qu) is accepted by ISWC + ASWC 2007.

  • 2006-07-27: Our paper 'Block matching for ontologies' (Wei Hu and Yuzhong Qu) is accepted by ISWC 2006.

  • 2006-01-24: Our paper entitled 'Constructing virtual documents for ontology matching' (Yuzhong Qu, Wei Hu and Gong Cheng) is accepted by WWW 2006.

    • Ontology Matching


    Falcon is an infrastructure for Semantic Web applications, which aims at providing fundamental technology for finding, aligning and learning ontologies, and ultimately for capturing knowledge from the Web via an ontology-driven approaches.

    Falcon-AO, a prominent component of Falcon, is an automatic ontology matching system that helps actualize interoperability between (Semantic) Web applications that use different but related ontologies. Recently, it has become a very practical and popular choice for matching Web ontologies expressed by RDF(S) and OWL. Falcon-AO is implemented in Java, and presently, it is an open source project under the Apache 2.0 license.

    To date, we have proposed a number of novel approaches for Falcon-AO, including V-Doc (a linguistic matcher), GMO (an iterative structural matcher) and PBM (a partition-based matcher for large ontologies). Further, we also address related research topics such as block (many-to-many) matching (BMO), matching between relational database schemas and ontologies (Marson).

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  • Wei Hu


    •   E-mail: whu@seu.edu.cn

      Phone: +86-25-52090908