USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FOR AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF ONTOLOGY INSTANCES

Carla Faria, Rosario Girardi, Ivo Serra, Maria Macedo, Djefferson Maranhão

2010

Abstract

Ontologies are used by modern knowledge-based systems to represent and share knowledge about an application domain. Ontology population looks for identifying instances of concepts and relationships of an ontology. Manual population by domain experts and knowledge engineers is an expensive and time consuming task so, automatic and semi-automatic approaches are needed. This article proposes an initial approach for automatic ontology population from textual sources that use natural language processing and machine learning techniques. Some experiments using a family law corpus were conducted in order to evaluate it. Initial results are promising and indicate that our approach can extract instances with good effectiveness.

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Faria C., Girardi R., Serra I., Macedo M. and Maranhão D. (2010). USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FOR AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF ONTOLOGY INSTANCES . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8425-05-8, pages 278-283. DOI: 10.5220/0002904402780283


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis10,
author={Carla Faria and Rosario Girardi and Ivo Serra and Maria Macedo and Djefferson Maranhão},
title={USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FOR AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF ONTOLOGY INSTANCES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2010},
pages={278-283},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002904402780283},
isbn={978-989-8425-05-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FOR AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF ONTOLOGY INSTANCES
SN - 978-989-8425-05-8
AU - Faria C.
AU - Girardi R.
AU - Serra I.
AU - Macedo M.
AU - Maranhão D.
PY - 2010
SP - 278
EP - 283
DO - 10.5220/0002904402780283