Domain Ontology Extraction from a Glossary: Case of the Phosphate Industry
Oussama Chabih, Sara Sbai, Mohammed Reda Chbihi Louhdi, Hicham Behja · International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology · 2025
Ontologies play a crucial role in structuring domain-specific knowledge, enabling more efficient search, discovery, and data interoperability across different systems. In this context, an innovative approach to transform domain-specific glossaries into ontologies, with a focus on the phosphate industry, is proposed in this paper. Unlike traditional methods that depend solely on transformation rules, the proposed approach combines empirical and algorithmic techniques to detect relationships between glossary terms, resulting in a more accurate and comprehensive ontology. The proposed method was applied to the OCP Group’s internal glossary, successfully generating an OWL2 ontology that significantly improves search and discovery within the organization’s knowledge management systems. The experiment’s results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms existing techniques in terms of accuracy and relevance, providing a robust framework for knowledge representation in specialized industrial contexts.