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Learning domain ontologies from document warehouses and dedicated websites
- Computational Linguistics
, 2004
"... We present a method and a tool, OntoLearn, aimed at the extraction of domain ontologies from Web sites, and more generally from documents shared among the members of virtual organizations. OntoLearn first extracts a domain terminology from available documents. Then, complex domain terms are semantic ..."
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We present a method and a tool, OntoLearn, aimed at the extraction of domain ontologies from Web sites, and more generally from documents shared among the members of virtual organizations. OntoLearn first extracts a domain terminology from available documents. Then, complex domain terms are semantically interpreted and arranged in a hierarchical fashion. Finally, a general-purpose ontology, WordNet, is trimmed and enriched with the detected domain concepts. The major novel aspect of this approach is semantic interpretation, that is, the association of a complex concept with a complex term. This involves finding the appropriate WordNet concept for each word of a terminological string and the appropriate conceptual relations that hold among the concept components. Semantic interpretation is based on a new word sense disambiguation algorithm, called structural semantic interconnections. 1.
Ontology Matching: A Machine Learning Approach
- Handbook on Ontologies in Information Systems
, 2003
"... Finally, we describe a set of experiments on several real-world domains, and show that GLUE proposes highly accurate semantic mappings. 1 A Motivating Example: the Semantic Web The current World-Wide Web has well over 1.5 billion pages [2], but the vast majority of them are in human-readable forma ..."
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Finally, we describe a set of experiments on several real-world domains, and show that GLUE proposes highly accurate semantic mappings. 1 A Motivating Example: the Semantic Web The current World-Wide Web has well over 1.5 billion pages [2], but the vast majority of them are in human-readable format only (e.g., HTML). As Work done while the author was at the University of Washington, Seattle 2 AnHai Doan et al. a consequence software agents (softbots) cannot understand and process this information, and much of the potential of the Web has so far remained untapped. In response, researchers have created the vision of the Semantic Web [5], where data has structure and ontologies describe the semantics of the data. When data is marked up using ontologies, softbots can better understand the semantics and therefore more intelligently locate and integrate data for a wide variety of tasks. The following example illustrates the vision of the Semantic Web. Example 1. Suppose you want to fi
Learning to Match Ontologies on the Semantic Web
, 2003
"... On the Semantic Web, data will inevitably come from many different ontologies, and information processing across ontologies is not possible without knowing the semantic mappings between them. Manually finding such mappings is tedious, error-prone, and clearly not possible at the Web scale. Hence, th ..."
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On the Semantic Web, data will inevitably come from many different ontologies, and information processing across ontologies is not possible without knowing the semantic mappings between them. Manually finding such mappings is tedious, error-prone, and clearly not possible at the Web scale. Hence, the development of tools to assist in the ontology mapping process is crucial to the success of the Semantic Web. We describe GLUE, a system that employs machine learning techniques to find such mappings. Given two ontologies, for each concept in one ontology GLUE finds the most similar concept in the other ontology. We give well-founded probabilistic definitions to several practical similarity measures, and show that GLUE can work with all of them. Another key feature of GLUE is that it uses multiple learning strategies, each of which exploits well a different type of information either in the data instances or in the taxonomic structure of the ontologies. To further improve matching accuracy, we extend GLUE to incorporate commonsense knowledge and domain constraints into the matching process. Our approach is thus distinguished in that it works with a variety of well-defined similarity notions and that it efficiently incorporates multiple types of knowledge. We describe a set of experiments on several real-world domains, and show that GLUE proposes highly accurate semantic mappings. Finally, we extend GLUE to find complex mappings between ontologies, and describe experiments that show the promise of the approach.
User-driven ontology evolution management
, 2002
"... Abstract. With rising importance of knowledge interchange, many industrial and academic applications have adopted ontologies as their conceptual backbone. However, industrial and academic environments are very dynamic, thus inducing changes to application requirements. To fulfill these changes, ofte ..."
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Abstract. With rising importance of knowledge interchange, many industrial and academic applications have adopted ontologies as their conceptual backbone. However, industrial and academic environments are very dynamic, thus inducing changes to application requirements. To fulfill these changes, often the underlying ontology must be evolved as well. As ontologies grow in size, the complexity of change management increases, thus requiring a wellstructured ontology evolution process. In this paper we identify a possible sixphase evolution process and focus on providing the user with capabilities to control and customize it. We introduce the concept of an evolution strategy encapsulating policy for evolution with respect to user’s requirements. 1
CREAM -- Creating relational metadata with a component-based, ontology-driven annotation framework
, 2001
"... Richly interlinked, machine-understandable data constitutes the basis for the Semantic Web. Annotating web documents is one of the major techniques for creating metadata on the Web. However, annotation tools so far are restricted in their capabilities of providing richly interlinked and truely ma ..."
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Richly interlinked, machine-understandable data constitutes the basis for the Semantic Web. Annotating web documents is one of the major techniques for creating metadata on the Web. However, annotation tools so far are restricted in their capabilities of providing richly interlinked and truely machine-understandable data. They basically allow the user to annotate with plain text according to a template structure, such as Dublin Core. We here present CREAM (Creating RElational, Annotationbased Metadata), a framework for an annotation environment that allows to construct relational metadata, i.e. metadata that comprises class instances and relationship instances. These instances are not based on a fix structure, but on a domain ontology. We discuss some of the requirements one has to meet when developing such a framework, e.g. the integration of a metadata crawler, inference services, document management and information extraction, and describe its implementation, viz. Ont-O-Mat a component-based, ontology-driven annotation tool.
Methods and Tools for Ontology Evolution
, 2004
"... thesis is the result of my work as a research assistant at the FZI – Research Center for ..."
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thesis is the result of my work as a research assistant at the FZI – Research Center for
Ontology Learning and its Application to Automated Terminology Translation
- IEEE Intelligent Systems
, 2003
"... for automated ontology learning extracts relevant domain terms from a corpus of text, relates them to appropriate concepts in a general-purpose ontology, and detects taxonomic and other semantic relations among the concepts. The authors used it to automatically translate multiword terms from English ..."
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for automated ontology learning extracts relevant domain terms from a corpus of text, relates them to appropriate concepts in a general-purpose ontology, and detects taxonomic and other semantic relations among the concepts. The authors used it to automatically translate multiword terms from English to Italian.
A Protegé Plug-In for Ontology Extraction from Text Based on Linguistic Analysis
- In European Semantic Web Symposium
, 2004
"... In this paper we describe a plug-in (OntoLT) for the widely used Protégé ontology development tool that supports the interactive extraction and/or extension of ontologies from text. The OntoLT approach provides an environment for the integration of linguistic analysis in ontology engineering through ..."
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In this paper we describe a plug-in (OntoLT) for the widely used Protégé ontology development tool that supports the interactive extraction and/or extension of ontologies from text. The OntoLT approach provides an environment for the integration of linguistic analysis in ontology engineering through the definition of mapping rules that map linguistic entities in annotated text collections to concept and attribute candidates (i.e. Protégé classes and slots). The paper explains this approach in more detail and discusses some initial experiments on deriving a shallow ontology for the neurology domain from a corresponding collection of neurological scientific abstracts. 1
Towards semantic web mining
- IN INTERNATIONAL SEMANTIC WEB CONFERENCE (ISWC
, 2002
"... Semantic Web Mining aims at combining the two fast-developing research areas Semantic Web and Web Mining. The idea is to improve, on the one hand, the results of Web Mining by exploiting the new semantic structures in the Web; and to make use of Web Mining, on the other hand, for building up the Sem ..."
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Semantic Web Mining aims at combining the two fast-developing research areas Semantic Web and Web Mining. The idea is to improve, on the one hand, the results of Web Mining by exploiting the new semantic structures in the Web; and to make use of Web Mining, on the other hand, for building up the Semantic Web. This paper gives an overview of where the two areas meet today, and sketches ways of how a closer integration could be profitable.
