Patent ID: 8655882

Claim:
A system for ontology candidate selection and comparison comprising: a microprocessor; an ontology candidate selection component executing on the microprocessor and configured to: compare at least a portion of a plurality of ontology candidates based upon a candidate selection rule; and based upon said comparison, select a pair of ontologies from the plurality of ontology candidates; and an ontology similarity component coupled to the ontology candidate selection component and configured to: generate a similarity outcome related to the pair of ontologies based upon a similarity rule; and evaluate at least one of: the candidate selection rule or the similarity rule based upon the similarity outcome; wherein the pair of ontologies includes a first ontology and a second ontology and the similarity rule is based upon: a plurality of text-based confidence levels associated with a plurality of text-based associations, each text-based association including concept strings from the first ontology and the second ontology; a text-based threshold confidence level; a plurality of semantic confidence levels associated with a plurality of semantic-based associations, each semantic-based association including concept strings from the first ontology and the second ontology; and a semantic-based threshold confidence level, and the similarity outcome is based upon: at least one semantic-based association associated with a semantic-based confidence level greater than or equal to the semantic-based threshold confidence level; and at least one text-based association associated with a text-based confidence level greater than or equal to the text-based threshold confidence level.