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Position Paper: Ontology Construction from Online Ontologies

  • Harith Alani, Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Electronics and Computer Science Dept. University of Southampton, UK

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Track: Semantic Web

Slot: 11:00-12:30, Friday 26th May

One of the main hurdles towards a wide endorsement of ontologies is the high cost of constructing them. Reuse of existing ontologies offers a much cheaper alternative than building new ones from scratch, yet tools to support such reuse are still in their infancy. However, more ontologies are becoming available on the web, and online libraries for storing and indexing ontologies are increasing in number and demand. Search engines have also started to appear, to facilitate search and retrieval of online ontologies. This paper presents a fresh view on constructing ontologies automatically, by identifying, ranking, and merging fragments of online ontologies.

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