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Building ontological models from Arabic Wikipedia: a proposed hybrid approach

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In this paper, we propose the building of ontologies from Arabic Wikipedia. Our solution relies on a hybrid approach where Wikipedia categories' hierarchy will serve as a backbone of the ontology, and then they are refined and extended by semantic relations extracted from Wikipedia articles infoboxes and hyperlinks. Moreover, we plan to investigate the effectiveness of using each approach independently to build the required ontology.

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          iiWAS '10: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services
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          2. knowledge representation
          3. ontologies
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