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Abstract

The use of ontologies and knowledge graphs is becoming increasingly widespread in the defence and national security domain. Numerous ontologies have been developed through initiatives led by academia, industry, and government. Achieving interoperability across diverse defence and national security ontologies remains a major challenge due to the domain’s breadth and specialisation. In this work, we analyse and document over 60 publicly available ontologies and introduce a new track for the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI). This track comprises eight matching tasks, consensus alignments and manually-curated (silver-standard) mappings. The consensus alignments are derived by aggregating the outputs of several state-of-the-art ontology alignment systems. The silver-standard is obtained from the manual validation of the consensus alignment together with a subset of the unique mappings (i.e., mappings suggested by only one system).

Publication Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information:	This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following work: Dilworth, J., Cotovio, P. G., Herron, D. , Cripps, P., Dewdney, N., Pesquita, C. & Jiménez-Ruiz, E. (2026). Improving Interoperability among Defence and National Security Ontologies: Analysis and Evaluation Tasks. Paper presented at the International Semantic Web Conference, 25-29 Oct 2026, Bari, Italy. This version of the manuscript has been accepted for publication, after final editorial and peer review is complete, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements (such as copyediting or typesetting), or any corrections. The final authenticated version will be available online at: https://link.springer.com/conference/semweb. Use of this Accepted Manuscript version is subject to the publisher’s Accepted Manuscript terms of use: https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/policies/accepted-manuscript-terms
Publisher Keywords:	Ontology Matching, Ontology Alignment, Network of Ontologies, Defence & National Security, Evaluation, OAEI
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software U Military Science > U Military Science (General) Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources
Departments:	School of Science & Technology School of Science & Technology > Department of Computer Science
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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