DYNAMIC ONTOLOGY CO-CONSTRUCTION BASED ON ADAPTIVE MULTI-AGENT TECHNOLOGY

Zied Sellami, Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Sylvain Rougemaille

2009

Abstract

Ontologies have become an important means for structuring knowledge and defining semantic information retrieval systems. Ontology engineering requires a significant effort, and recent researches show that human language technologies are useful means to acquire or update ontologies from text. In this paper we present DYNAMO, a tool based on a Multi-Agent System, which aims at assisting ontologists during the ontology building and evolution processes. This work is carried out in the context of the DYNAMO project. The main novelty of the agent system is to take advantage of text extracted terms and lexical relations together with some quantitative features of the corpus to guide the agents when self-organizing. We exhibit the first experiment of ontology building that shows promising results, and helps us to identify key issues to be solved to the DYNAMO system behavior and the resulting ontology.

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Sellami Z., Gleizes M., Aussenac-Gilles N. and Rougemaille S. (2009). DYNAMIC ONTOLOGY CO-CONSTRUCTION BASED ON ADAPTIVE MULTI-AGENT TECHNOLOGY . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2009) ISBN 978-989-674-012-2, pages 56-63. DOI: 10.5220/0002302700560063


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@conference{keod09,
author={Zied Sellami and Marie-Pierre Gleizes and Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles and Sylvain Rougemaille},
title={DYNAMIC ONTOLOGY CO-CONSTRUCTION BASED ON ADAPTIVE MULTI-AGENT TECHNOLOGY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={56-63},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002302700560063},
isbn={978-989-674-012-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2009)
TI - DYNAMIC ONTOLOGY CO-CONSTRUCTION BASED ON ADAPTIVE MULTI-AGENT TECHNOLOGY
SN - 978-989-674-012-2
AU - Sellami Z.
AU - Gleizes M.
AU - Aussenac-Gilles N.
AU - Rougemaille S.
PY - 2009
SP - 56
EP - 63
DO - 10.5220/0002302700560063