Title: Developing rules and criteria for rice ontology construction

Authors: Aree Thunkijjanukij, Asanee Kawtrakul, Supamard Panichsakpatana, Uamporn Veesommai

Addresses: Thai National AGRIS Centre, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand. ' Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand. ' Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Soil Science, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand. ' Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Horticulture, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand

Abstract: The Rice Production Ontology (RPO) was constructed from scratch in consultation with domain-experts. This ontology covers the domain of rice production from cultivation to harvesting. Refinement in the loop was done by performing the transformation following the criteria validated by expert to improve the created ontology. The RPO contains 2322 concepts and 5603 terms in a system of hierarchical and 57 associative relations and provides an organisational framework that allows reasoning about rice production knowledge. From the study, eight criteria for constructing ontology and five rules for the semi-automatic maintenance were derived.

Keywords: RPO; rice production ontology; ontology construction; criteria; rules.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2009.026254

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2009 Vol.4 No.1/2, pp.54 - 64

Published online: 30 May 2009 *

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