Vargas-Vera, Maria; Moreale, Emanuela; Stutt, Arthur; Motta, Enrico and Ciravegna, Fabio
(2007).
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1007/978-0-387-37022-4_13 |
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Abstract
Ontologies can play a very important role in information systems. They can support various information system processes, particularly information acquisition and integration. Ontologies themselves need to be designed, built and maintained. An important part of the ontology engineering cycle is the ability to keep a handcrafted ontology up to date. Therefore, we have developed a tool called MnM that helps during the ontology maintenance process. MnM extracts information from texts and populates an ontology. It uses NLP (Natural Language Processing), Information Extraction and Machine Learning technologies. In particular, MnM was tested using an electronic newsletter consisting of news articles describing events happening in the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi). MnM could constitute an important part of an ontology-driven information system, with its integrated web-based ontology editor and provision of open APIs to link to ontology servers and to integrate with information extraction tools.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC |
| ISBN: | 0-387-37019-6, 978-0-387-37019-4 |
| Keywords: | information extraction; ontology population; ontology-driven information systems |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Mathematics, Computing and Technology > Computing Knowledge Media Institute |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Research in Computing (CRC) |
| Item ID: | 23626 |
| Depositing User: | Kay Dave |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Mar 2011 10:39 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2011 10:47 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/23626 |
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