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Text-based domain ontology building using Tf-Idf and metric clusters techniques

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2007

YACINE REZGUI
YACINE REZGUI
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Informatics Research Institute, University of Salford, Maxwell Building, M5 4WT, Salford, Greater Manchester; e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

The paper describes the methodology used to develop a construction domain ontology, taking into account the wealth of existing semantic resources in the sector ranging from dictionaries to thesauri. Given the characteristics and settings of the construction industry, a modular, architecture-centric approach was adopted to structure and develop the ontology. The paper argues that taxonomies provide an ideal backbone for any ontology project. Therefore, a construction industry standard taxonomy was used to provide the seeds of the ontology, enriched and expanded with additional concepts extracted from large discipline-oriented document bases using information retrieval (IR) techniques.

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The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , December 2007 , pp. 379 - 403
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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