[1] Zhen Zhen, Tang Aimin, Shen Junyi, Lu Shengjun, et al. Thesaurus-based approach for building domain ontology witha case study of military aircraft prototype ontology construction [J]. Journal of Southeast University (English Edition), 2006, 22 (3): 353-356. [doi:10.3969/j.issn.1003-7985.2006.03.013]

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Journal of Southeast University (English Edition)[ISSN:1003-7985/CN:32-1325/N]

Volumn:

22

Issue:

2006 3

Page:

353-356

Research Field:

Computer Science and Engineering

Publishing date:

2006-09-30

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Title:

Thesaurus-based approach for building domain ontology witha case study of military aircraft prototype ontology construction

Author(s):

Zhen Zhen¹;  Tang Aimin²;  Shen Junyi¹;  Lu Shengjun²

¹School of Electric and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
²China Defense Science and Technology Information Center, Beijing 100036, China

Keywords:

thesaurus;  domain ontology;  construction;  methodology;  semantic relationship

PACS:

TP311

DOI:

10.3969/j.issn.1003-7985.2006.03.013

Abstract:

To alleviate the amount of work involved in constructing a domain ontology, starting with the base of an existing terminological-rich thesaurus is better than starting from scratch.With a case study of reengineering the Defense Science and Technology Thesaurus into a prototype military aircraft ontology, a four-phase thesaurus-based methodology is introduced and investigated, which consists of identifying the application purpose, overall design, designing in detail and evaluation. Designing in detail is the core step, converting the terms and semantic relationships of the thesaurus into an ontology and supplementing richer semantic relationships.The resulting prototype ontology includes 87 concepts and 34 relationships, and can be extended and scaled up to a full-fledged domain ontology in the future.Eight universal genres of relationships of this ontology are preliminarily summarized and analyzed, including equivalent relationships, approximate relationships, generic/abstract relationships, part/whole relationships, cause/effect relationships, entity/location relationships etc., and the normalization of semantic relationships is critical to the merging and reusing of follow-up multiple ontologies.

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Biographies: Zhen Zhen(1970—), male, graduate, zhenzh@mailst.xjtu.edu.cn;Shen Junyi(1939—), male, professor, jyshen@mail.xjtu.edu.cn.

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