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Generating and Evaluating Triples for Modelling a Virtual Environment

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: OTM 2005 Workshops (OTM 2005)

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Our purpose is to extract RDF-style triples from text corpora in an unsupervised way and use them as preprocessed material for the construction of ontologies from scratch. We have worked on a corpus taken from Internet websites and describing the megalithic ruin of Stonehenge. Using a shallow parser, we select functional relations, such as the syntactic structure subject-verb-object. The selection is done using prepositional structures and frequency measures in order to select the most relevant triples. Therefore, the paper stresses the choice of patterns and the filtering carried out in order to discard automatically all irrelevant structures. At the same occasion, we are experimenting with a method to objectively evaluate the material generated automatically.

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  1. CNTS, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610, Wilrijk, Belgium

    Marie-Laure Reinberger

  2. STAR Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2 Gebouw G-10, B-1050, Brussel, Belgium

    Peter Spyns

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  1. STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Bldg G/10, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Robert Meersman

  2. School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University, Bld 10.10, 376-392 Swanston Street, 3001, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Zahir Tari

  3. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo S/N, 28660, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

    Pilar Herrero

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Reinberger, ML., Spyns, P. (2005). Generating and Evaluating Triples for Modelling a Virtual Environment. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z., Herrero, P. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: OTM 2005 Workshops. OTM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3762. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11575863_144

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