Approach for Synonyms Detection in Conceptual Data Model

Detection of synonyms in data modeling is considered as a significant problem, especially within the semantic evaluation of a conceptual data model. This paper presents an approach for synonyms detection in a system for conceptual data model semantic evaluation. It is based on automated reasoning in ontology mapping with conceptual data model with tool that formalizes ontology and conceptual data model and merges them with a set of reasoning rules. Reasoning was done with Prolog system. These rules are created for ontology–toconceptual data model mapping, as well for synonyms extraction. Examples of
\ntesting reasoning rules are also shown in the paper.