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[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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Thesaurus-based approach for building domain ontology witha case study of military aircraft prototype ontology construction()
基于叙词表构建军用飞机领域本体原型
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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
基于叙词表构建军用飞机领域本体原型
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
真溱1;  唐爱民2;  沈钧毅1;  卢胜军2
1西安交通大学电子与信息工程学院, 西安 710049; 2中国国防科技信息中心, 北京 100036
Keywords:
thesaurus;  domain ontology;  construction;  methodology;  semantic relationship
叙词表;  领域本体;  构建;  方法论;  语义关系
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.
为了减少构建领域本体的工作量, 利用现有术语丰富的叙词表作为构建工作的起点是一种较好的方法.以《国防科技叙词表》的有关内容转换生成军用飞机领域本体原型为实例, 详细叙述了一种基于叙词表构建领域本体的方法.该方法包含4个阶段, 即确定用途、总体设计、详细设计和评估.详细设计是核心, 该部分将叙词表中出现的词汇、语义关系转换到本体中, 并补充了更丰富的语义关系.生成的领域本体原型具有87个概念、34个关系, 具备较好的扩展能力.对本体原形中出现的8种通用关系类型也进行了初步地归纳和分析, 包括等同关系、近似关系、具体与抽象关系、部分与整体关系、因果关系、实体与位置关系等.语义关系规范化将是今后实现多个本体合并和复用的一个关键.

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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.
Last Update: 2006-09-20