Reusing WordNet for Building Domain Ontology
Jianjiang Lu · Jisuanji fangzhen · 2007
Building ontology is an important process to develop the semantic-based information system. An approach for building a domain ontology reusing WordNet was proposed. The structure and semantic relations of WordNet were analyzed and WordNet was abstracted as a graph model. Regarding domain terms as the concepts of the ontology,a subgraph whose nodes were domain terms was abstracted and a domain sub-ontology was generated. The ontology was modified and complemented using an ontology editor. The experiment shows that WordNet’s structure can be reused and domain knowledge is acquired in this approach,and a domain ontology can be built semi-automatically and quickly.