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With the availability of these ontologies, the needed information can be smoothly attained, but the presence of comparably varied ontologies nurtures the dispute of rework and merging of data. The assessment of the existing ontologies exposes the existence of the superfluous information; hence, ontology merging is the only solution. The existing ontology merging methods focus only on highly relevant classes and instances, whereas somewhat relevant classes and instances have been simply dropped. Those somewhat relevant classes and instances may also be useful or relevant to the given domain. In this paper, we propose a new method called hybrid semantic similarity measure (HSSM)-based ontology merging using formal concept analysis (FCA) and semantic similarity measure.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>The HSSM categorizes the relevancy into three classes, namely highly relevant, moderate relevant and least relevant classes and instances. To achieve high efficiency in merging, HSSM performs both FCA part and the semantic similarity part.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Findings<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>The experimental results proved that the HSSM produced better results compared with existing algorithms in terms of similarity distance and time. An inconsistency check can also be done for the dissimilar classes and instances within an ontology. The output ontology will have set of highly relevant and moderate classes and instances as well as few least relevant classes and instances that will eventually lead to exhaustive ontology for the particular domain.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Practical implications<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>In this paper, a HSSM method is proposed and used to merge the academic social network ontologies; this is observed to be an extremely powerful methodology compared with other former studies. This HSSM approach can be applied for various domain ontologies and it may deliver a novel vision to the researchers.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>The HSSM is not applied for merging the ontologies in any former studies up to the knowledge of authors.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/lht-02-2019-0035","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,11]],"date-time":"2019-07-11T09:22:33Z","timestamp":1562836953000},"page":"399-419","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["A novel method for merging academic social network ontologies using formal concept analysis and hybrid semantic similarity measure"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"38","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7553-6892","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"M.","family":"Priya","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Aswani Kumar","family":"Ch.","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"first-page":"1","article-title":"Structure based modular ontologies composition","year":"2016","key":"key2020061114432583400_ref001"},{"first-page":"1","article-title":"A tool for creating and visualising formal concept trees","year":"2016","key":"key2020061114432583400_ref002"},{"first-page":"1","volume-title":"Introduction to Formal Concept Analysis","year":"2008","key":"key2020061114432583400_ref003"},{"key":"key2020061114432583400_ref004","unstructured":"Chatterjee, N., Kaushik, N., Gupta, D. and Bhatia, R. 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