KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION WITH OM - A Heuristic Solution

Adolfo Guzman-Arenas, Alma-Delia Cuevas-Rasgado

2008

Abstract

Knowledge scattered through the Web inside unstructured documents (text documents) can not be easily interpreted by computers. To do so, knowledge contained from them must be extracted by a parser or a person and poured into a suitable data structure, the best form to do this, are with ontologies. For an appropriate merging of these “individual” ontologies, we consider repetitions, redundancies, synonyms, meronyms, different level of details, different viewpoints of the concepts involved, and contradictions, a large and useful ontology could be constructed. This paper presents OM algorithm, an automatic ontology merger that achieves the fusion of two ontologies without human intervention. Through repeated application of OM, we can get a growing ontology of a knowledge topic given. Using OM we hope to achieve automatic knowledge acquisition. There are two missing tasks: the conversion of a given text to its corresponding ontology (by a combination of syntactic and semantic analysis) is not yet automatically done; and the exploitation of the large resulting ontology is still under development.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Guzman-Arenas A. and Cuevas-Rasgado A. (2008). KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION WITH OM - A Heuristic Solution . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-37-1, pages 356-363. DOI: 10.5220/0001717703560363

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis08,
author={Adolfo Guzman-Arenas and Alma-Delia Cuevas-Rasgado},
title={KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION WITH OM - A Heuristic Solution},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={356-363},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001717703560363},
isbn={978-989-8111-37-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION WITH OM - A Heuristic Solution
SN - 978-989-8111-37-1
AU - Guzman-Arenas A.
AU - Cuevas-Rasgado A.
PY - 2008
SP - 356
EP - 363
DO - 10.5220/0001717703560363