Mani, I.; Samuel, K.; Concepcion, K. & Vogel, D.: Automatcally Inducing Ontologies from Corpora. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Computational Terminology. Geneva: 2004
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The emergence of vast quantities of on-line information has raised the importance of methods for automatic cataloguing of information in a variety of domains, including electronic commerce and bioinformatics. Ontologies can play a critical role in such cataloguing. In this paper, we describe a system that automatically induces an ontology from any large on-line text collection in a specific domain. The ontology that is induced consists of domain concepts, related by kind-of and part-of links. To achieve domain-independence, we use a combination of relatively shallow methods along with any available repositories of applicable background knowledge. We describe our evaluation experiences using these methods, and provide examples of induced structures.
@inproceedings{mani2004automatcally,
author = {Mani, Inderjeet and Samuel, Ken and Concepcion, Kris and Vogel, David},
title = {Automatcally Inducing Ontologies from Corpora},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Computational Terminology},
address = {Geneva},
year = {2004},
url = {http://-new.biomath.jussieu.fr/~pz/computerm2004.html},
keywords = {diploma_thesis, eventually_useful},
abstract = {The emergence of vast quantities of on-line information has raised the importance of methods for automatic cataloguing of information in a variety of domains, including electronic commerce and bioinformatics. Ontologies can play a critical role in such cataloguing. In this paper, we describe a system that automatically induces an ontology from any large on-line text collection in a specific domain. The ontology that is induced consists of domain concepts, related by kind-of and part-of links. To achieve domain-independence, we use a combination of relatively shallow methods along with any available repositories of applicable background knowledge. We describe our evaluation experiences using these methods, and provide examples of induced structures.}
}