Automatic Ontology Creation from Text for National Intelligence Priorities Framework (NIPF).
Mithun Balakrishna, Munirathnam Srikanth · 2008
Abstract—Analysts are constantly overwhelmed with large amounts of unstructured data. This holds especially true for intelligenceanalystswiththetaskofextractingusefulinformation from large data sources. To alleviate this problem, domainspecific and general-purpose ontologies/knowledge-bases have been proposed to help automate methods for organizing data and provide access to useful information. However, problems inontologycreationandmaintenancehaveresultedinexpensiveproceduresforexpanding/maintainingtheontologylibrary available to support the growing and evolving needs of the Intelligence Community (IC). In this paper, we will present a semi-automatic development of an ontology library for the NationalIntelligencePrioritiesFramework(NIPF)topics.Weuse Jaguar-KAT,astate-of-the-arttoolforknowledgeacquisitionand domainunderstanding,withminimizedmanualinterventionto createNIPFontologiesloadedwithrichsemanticcontent.We alsopresentevaluationresultsfortheNIPFontologiescreated usingourmethodology. Index Terms—ontologygeneration,NationalIntelligencePrioritiesFramework(NIPF). I.