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TERMINAE: A Linguistics-Based Tool for the Building of a Domain Ontology

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The purpose of TERMINAE is to help building an ontology, both from scratch and from texts, without control by any task. Requirements have been defined for a methodology on the basis of real experiments. TERMINAE fulfills these requirements, involving theoretical bases from linguistics and knowledge representation. Its strong points are integration of a terminological approach and an ontology management, precise definition of concept types reflecting modeling choices, and traceability facilities. This paper presents briefly the experiments leading to the requirements, and focuses on the tool and its underlying methodology.

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Biébow, B., Szulman, S., Clément, A.J.B. (1999). TERMINAE: A Linguistics-Based Tool for the Building of a Domain Ontology. In: Fensel, D., Studer, R. (eds) Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management. EKAW 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1621. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48775-1_4

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