Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative - OAEI 2023 Campaign

Results of Evaluation for the Food Nutritional Composition track within OAEI 2023

This is the second year the Food Nutritional Composition (FNC) track participates in an OAEI campaign. We are glad to be part of it and would like to thank everyone who has supported us along the way, especially Cassia Trojahn and Sven Hertling for their help and nice advice!

Participating systems

This year five systems registered on this track, each of which was used for evaluation with the test case of the Food benchmark. AMD encounter an error during launch, so results are only available for four of the matchers:

Generated alignments

We have collected all generated alignments and made them available in a zip-file via the following link. These alignments are the raw results that the following report is based on.

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Results

The following results were obtained for the participating matching systems in the OAEI campaign 2023 within the FNC track.

Results for "equal" relation (Test case food v2):

System Correspondences Precision Recall F1-Measure Time [s]
LogMapLite 15 0.1333 0.0274 0.0454 5
LogMap 15 0.1333 0.0274 0.0454 14
Matcha 335 0.0656 0.3013 0.1078 53
OLaLa 1185 0.0337 0.5479 0.06359 73920

Results for "subclass" relation (Test Case food v2sub):

System Correspondences Precision Recall F1-Measure Time [s]
LogMapLite 15 0 0 0 6
LogMap 15 0 0 0 15
Matcha 335 0 0 0 53

The test case food v2 evaluates matching systems regarding their capability to find "equal" (=), correspondences between the CIQUAL ontology and the SIREN ontology. The test case food v2sub evaluates matching systems regarding their capability to find "subclass" relation (<) between the CIQUAL ontology and the SIREN ontology. All evaluated systems compute the alignment in less than a minute except OLaLa. LogMapLite stands out for its very fast calculation time of 6s. LogMap and LogMapLite have better precision than Matcha. However, LogMap’s recall is 10 times less than Matcha’s one. Matcha is the best performing participant in the FNC test case in terms of recall and F1-measure.

Conclusion

Unfortunately, none of the evaluated matchers finds all reference correspondences correctly. LogMapLite stands out for its very fast computing speed. Matcha obtains the best results for the FNC application. The usage of background knowledge available in CIQUAL and SIREN ontologies in terms of food description based on FoodON concepts [1] should be considered in future OAEI campaigns .

Contact

This track is organized by Liliana Ibanescu, Patrice Buche and Julien Cufi. If anything is unclear, if you have any comments on the Food track, feel free to write an email to patrice.buche[at] inrae[.] fr or julien.cufi[at] inrae[.] fr.

Reference

[1] Patrice Buche, Julien Cufi, Stéphane Dervaux, Juliette Dibie-Barthelemy, Liliana Ibanescu et al. How to Manage Incompleteness of Nutritional Food Sources?: A solution using FoodOn as pivot ontology International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems, IGI Global, 2021, 12 (4), pp.1-26. (10.4018/IJAEIS.20211001.oa4) https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03372310