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The increasing need for ontologies and the difficulties of manual construction give place to initiatives proposing methods for automatic and semi-automatic ontology learning. In this work we present a semi-automatic method for domain ontologies extraction from Wikipedia’s categories. In order to validate the method, we have conducted a case study in which we implemented a prototype generating a Tourism ontology. The results are evaluated against a manually built Golden Standard reporting 79.51% Precision and 91.95% Recall, comparable to those found in the literature for other languages.
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Xavier, C.C., de Lima, V.L.S. (2010). A Semi-automatic Method for Domain Ontology Extraction from Portuguese Language Wikipedia’s Categories. In: da Rocha Costa, A.C., Vicari, R.M., Tonidandel, F. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence – SBIA 2010. SBIA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6404. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16138-4_2
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