Keywords

Semantic Web ontologies, Ontology engineering, Ontology reuse, Automated ontology generation, Natural language web pages

Abstract

Realizing the Semantic Web involves creating ontologies, a tedious and costly challenge. Reuse can reduce the cost of ontology engineering. Semantic Web ontologies can provide useful input for ontology reuse. However, the automated reuse of such ontologies remains underexplored. This paper presents a generic architecture for automated ontology reuse. With our implementation of this architecture, we show the practicality of automating ontology generation through ontology reuse. We experimented with a large generic ontology as a basis for automatically generating domain ontologies that fit the scope of sample natural-language web pages. The results were encouraging, resulting in five lessons pertinent to future automated ontology reuse study.

Original Publication Citation

Yihong Ding, Deryle Lonsdale, David Embley, Martin Hepp, and Li Xu (2007). Generating Ontologies via Language Components and Ontology Reuse; In: Natural Language Processingand Information Systems: 12th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language toInformation Systems (NLDB-2007, Paris, France; June 2007), (Zoubida Kedad, NadiraLammari, Elisabeth Métais, Farid Meziane, and Yacine Rezgui, Eds.). Lecture Notes inComputer Science vol. 4592; pp. 131-142, Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg

Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

2007

Publisher

Springer-Verlag

Language

English

College

Humanities

Department

Linguistics

University Standing at Time of Publication

Associate Professor

Download

Share

COinS