An Evolutive Process to Convert Glossaries into Ontologies

This paper describes a method to generate ontologies from glossaries of terms. The proposed method presupposes an evolutionary life cycle based on successive transformations of the original glossary that lead to products of intermediate knowledge representation (dictionary, taxonomy, and thesaurus)....

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Published in:Information technology and libraries 2010-12, Vol.29 (4), p.195-204
Main Authors: HILERA, José R, PAGES, Carmen, MARTINEZ, J. Javier, GUTIERREZ, J. Antonio, DE-MARCOS, Luis
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer science
Computer Software
Controlled vocabularies
Definitions
Dictionaries
Digital libraries
Documentary languages. Terminology
Electronic Libraries
Engineering
Exact sciences and technology
Glossaries
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
IEEE standards
Indexing
Information and communication sciences
Information processing and retrieval
Information resources
Information science. Documentation
Knowledge management
Knowledge organization
Knowledge representation
Language and languages
Libraries
Library catalogs
Logical and linguistic tools
Mathematical Logic
Ontologies
Ontology
Reference Materials
Resource Description Framework-RDF
Sciences and techniques of general use
Search theory
Semantic web
Semantics
Semiotics
Software
Software development
Software engineering
Studies
Taxonomy
Teaching Methods
Terminology
Terminology. Lexicons. Thesaurus
Thesauri
Transformations
Vocabularies & taxonomies
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Summary:This paper describes a method to generate ontologies from glossaries of terms. The proposed method presupposes an evolutionary life cycle based on successive transformations of the original glossary that lead to products of intermediate knowledge representation (dictionary, taxonomy, and thesaurus). These products are characterized by an increase in semantic expressiveness in comparison to the product obtained in the previous transformation, with the ontology as the end product. Although this method has been applied to produce an ontology from the “IEEE Standard Glossary of Software Engineering Terminology,” it could be applied to any glossary of any knowledge domain to generate an ontology that may be used to index or search for information resources and documents stored in libraries or on the Semantic Web.
ISSN:0730-9295
2163-5226
DOI:10.6017/ital.v29i4.3130