Structuring Domain Knowledge by Semi-automatic Ontology Construction

Authors

  • Bojan Cestnik Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana,Temida, d.o.o., Dunajska cesta 51, 1000 Ljubljana
  • Ingrid Petrič University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska 13, 5000 Nova Gorica
  • Tanja Urbančič University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska 13, 5000 Nova Gorica
  • Marta Macedoni-Lukšič University Children's Hospital, University Medical Centre, Ljubljana

Abstract

In this paper, we present a case in semi-automatic ontology construction from literature. For this, we concentrate on the articles about autism obtained from the PubMed Central database. Our motivation was to investigate how separate parts of articles, such as titles, abstracts and full texts, influence the constructed ontology. Our results confirm the intuitive expectation that constructing ontologies from abstracts is a rational choice when uncovering the structure of a given scientific field. In addition, when compared to general knowledge of autism, ontology concepts from abstracts show the highest similarity

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Published

2007-12-01

Issue

Vol.40, No 6 (2007)

Section

Research Papers