Declarative Ontology Alignment Format for Semantic Translation

With the rise of Linked Data, triplestores, natural language processing and other semantic technologies, popularity and applicability of ontologies grows as well. One of more common operations on ontologies, regardless of their application, is an alignment - a matching between entities from different ontologies. So far, many alignment formats and languages have been proposed, some of them for general use and some particular to a concrete implementation of an alignment software. In this paper we present an ontology alignment format developed within the INTER-IoT project, and compatible with the Alignment API. Named after our semantic translation software - Inter Platform Semantic Mediator (IPSM) - the IPSM Alignment Format is universal and can be used to express both simple andf complex alignments. It is applied in practice, and used in semantic translations within INTER-IoT.