Matching Large Biomedical Ontologies Using Symbolic Regression Using Symbolic Regression

Abstract

The problem of ontology matching consists of finding the semantic correspondences between two ontologies that, although belonging to the same domain, have been developed separately. Ontology matching methods are of great importance today since they allow us to find the pivot points from which an automatic data integration process can be established. Unlike the most recent developments based on deep learning, this study presents our research efforts on the development of novel methods for ontology matching that are accurate and interpretable at the same time. For this purpose, we rely on a symbolic regression model (implemented via genetic programming) that has been specifically trained to find the mathematical expression that can solve the ground truth provided by experts accurately. Moreover, our approach offers the possibility of being understood by a human operator and helping the processor to consume as little energy as possible. The experimental evaluation results that we have achieved using several benchmark datasets seem to show that our approach could be promising.