Title: Extracting and formalising terms and relations to build ontology

Authors: Soraya Zaidi; Ahmed Abdelali; Mohamed-Tayeb Laskri

Addresses: LRS Université Badji Mokhtar Annaba Algérie, Algeria ' Research Administration, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA ' LRI/GRIA, Université Badji Mokhtar Annaba Algérie, Algeria

Abstract: Accessing the massive amount of information posted daily to the web is becoming a challenge. The need for tools to exploit information from such content in a robust and rapid manner is greater than ever. Ontology could be an efficient alternative for searching and exploiting information on the web. The main advantage of ontology is that it provides a standard for the vocabulary. In fact, ontologies aim to present, in a generic and reusable manner, the semantics of a given domain. The automatic construction of ontologies, while still challenging, is gaining ground against the tedious, slow and expensive manual approach. We aim to provide tools for automatic extraction of both terms and relations. The process will automate ontology building. We demonstrate in this work the process of automatic extraction while trying to develop or adapt existing technology to support Arabic language.

Keywords: ontology building; formalism; Arabic language; collocations; term extraction; relations extraction; semantics.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2011.048030

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2011 Vol.6 No.3/4, pp.241 - 253

Received: 20 Sep 2011
Accepted: 13 Dec 2011
Published online: 12 Feb 2015 *

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