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Creating Ontologies for Content Representation—The OntoSeed Suite

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE (OTM 2005)

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Due to the inherent difficulties associated with manual ontology building, knowledge acquisition and reuse are often seen as methods that can make this tedious process easier. In this paper we present an NLP-based method to aid ontology design in a specific setting, namely that of semantic annotation of text. The method uses the World Wide Web in its analysis of the domain-specific documents, eliminating the need for linguistic knowledge and resources, and suggests ways to specify domain ontologies in a “linguistics-friendly” format in order to improve further ontology-based natural language processing tasks such as semantic annotation. We evaluate the method on a corpora in a real-world setting in the medical domain and compare the costs and the benefits of the NLP-based ontology engineering approach against a similar reuse-oriented experiment.

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  1. Institut für Informatik, AG Netzbasierte Informationssysteme, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustr. 9, 14195, Berlin, Germany

    Elena Paslaru Bontas

  2. Institut für Linguistik, Angewandte Computerlinguistik, Universität Potsdam, P.O. Box 601553, 14415, Potsdam, Germany

    David Schlangen

  3. Institute for Pathology Charitè, Rudolf-Virchow-Haus, Schumannstr. 20-21, D-10117, Berlin, Germany

    Thomas Schrader

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    Robert Meersman

  2. School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University, Bld 10.10, 376-392 Swanston Street, VIC 3001, Melbourne, Australia

    Zahir Tari

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Bontas, E.P., Schlangen, D., Schrader, T. (2005). Creating Ontologies for Content Representation—The OntoSeed Suite. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE. OTM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3761. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11575801_23

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