On the Construction of Ontologies based on Natural Language Semantic

Artikkel
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01.06.2007

Abstract:
Ontologies based on natural language semantic are supposed to represent the mental models that speakers of a language possess of domains. They are thus commonly understood and may serve as efficient interfaces for communicating information about their domain of application. To determine an ontological representation of a mental model one must consider not only the meaning of isolated words, but also how they enter into true sentences and valid inferences.

In this paper a method is presented that consists in identifying true sentences and using valid inferences to construct taxonomies for categorisation hierarchies. The method is discussed and then applied to the construction of a taxonomy for the domain of tasks provided by the Norwegian municipalities.

In: Proceedings of the 17th European-Japanes Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases EJC 2007
Tampere University of Technology.  Pori, Finland.