Publikation
A Formalization of Ontology Learning from Text
Michael Sintek; Paul Buitelaar; Daniel Olejnik
In: Proc. of the Workshop on Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON2004) at the International Semantic Web Conference. International Workshop on Evaluation of Ontologies and Ontology-based tools (EON), 2004.
Zusammenfassung
Recent developments towards knowledge-based applications in general and Semantic Web applications in particular are leading to an increased interest in ontologies and in dynamic methods for developing and maintaining them. As human language is a primary mode of knowledge transfer, ontology learning from relevant text collections has been among the most successful strategies in this work. Such methods mostly combine a certain level of linguistic analysis with statistical and/or machine learning approaches to find potentially interesting concepts and relations between them. Here, we discuss a formalization of this process (in the specific context of the OntoLT tool for ontology learning from text) in order to arrive at a better definition of this task, which we hope to be of use in a more principled comparison of different approaches. As ontology representation formalisms we will consider those that have a model-theoretic semantics, with OWL (and subsets of OWL) being appropriate candidates.