The TEXT-TO-ONTO Ontology Learning Environment
Alexander Maedche, Steffen Staab · 2000
Ontologies have become an important means for structuring information and information systems and, hence, important in knowledge as well as in software engineering. However, there remains the problem of engineering large and adequate ontologies within short time frames in order to keep costs low. For this purpose, we present the TEXT-TO-ONTO Ontology Learning Environment, which is based on a general architecture for discovering conceptual structures and engineering ontologies from text. Our Ontology Learning Environment supports as well the acquisition of conceptual structures as mapping linguistic resources to the acquired structures. 1 Introduction Ontologies 1 have shown their usefulness in application areas such as intelligent information integration, information brokering and natural-language processing, to name but a few. However, their wide-spread usage is still hindered by ontology engineering being rather time-consuming and, hence, expensive. Our system TEXT-TO-ONT...