A novel approach for learning ontology from relational database: from the construction to the evaluation

The aim of converting relational database into Ontology is to provide applications that are based on the semantic representation of the data. Whereas, representing the data using ontologies has shown to be a useful mechanism for managing and exchanging data. This is the reason why bridging the gap b...

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Published in:Journal of big data 2021-01, Vol.8 (1), p.1-22, Article 25
Main Authors: Ben Mahria, Bilal, Chaker, Ilham, Zahi, Azeddine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abox
Big Data
Communications Engineering
Computational Science and Engineering
Computer Science
Conceptual ontology
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Database Management
Factual ontology
Information Storage and Retrieval
Knowledge representation
Learning
Life cycle engineering
Mathematical Applications in Computer Science
Networks
Ontology
Relational data bases
Relational database
Semantics
Software engineering
Tbox
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Summary:The aim of converting relational database into Ontology is to provide applications that are based on the semantic representation of the data. Whereas, representing the data using ontologies has shown to be a useful mechanism for managing and exchanging data. This is the reason why bridging the gap between relational databases and ontologies has attracted the interest of the ontology community from early years, and it is commonly referred to as the database-to-ontology mapping problem. In this paper, we: (1) propose a new life cycle for ontology learning from RDBs based on the software engineering requirements; (2) describe a new method for building ontology from Relational database based on the predefined life cycle; (3) add three new semantics that can be extracted from RDB; (4) we suggest an evaluation process based on two categories of metrics: (i) conceptual ontology (TBox) evaluation metrics; (ii) factual ontology (ABox) evaluation metrics.
ISSN:2196-1115
2196-1115
DOI:10.1186/s40537-021-00412-2