Apparatus and method for matching large-scale biomedical ontologies

Abstract

An ontology matching apparatus for large-scale biomedical ontologies according to the present invention is provided, and the ontology matching apparatus includes a preprocessing unit configured to classify received candidate ontologies into one or more ontology subsets to generate ontology subsets, a distribution processing unit configured to divide the generated ontology subsets by virtue of a distribution algorithm, apply a matching algorithm to the divided ontology subsets to generate matching threads, and deliver the generated matching threads to individual cores of participating nodes, and an aggregating unit configured to collect and sum matching results generated by the individual cores performing matching operations based on the matching threads to generate an ontology mapping.

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