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A Survey on Ontology Creation Methodologies

A Survey on Ontology Creation Methodologies

Matteo Cristani, Roberta Cuel
Copyright: © 2005 |Volume: 1 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 21
ISSN: 1552-6283|EISSN: 1552-6291|ISSN: 1552-6283|EISBN13: 9781615204977|EISSN: 1552-6291|DOI: 10.4018/jswis.2005040103
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Cristani, Matteo, and Roberta Cuel. "A Survey on Ontology Creation Methodologies." IJSWIS vol.1, no.2 2005: pp.49-69. http://doi.org/10.4018/jswis.2005040103

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Cristani, M. & Cuel, R. (2005). A Survey on Ontology Creation Methodologies. International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), 1(2), 49-69. http://doi.org/10.4018/jswis.2005040103

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Cristani, Matteo, and Roberta Cuel. "A Survey on Ontology Creation Methodologies," International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) 1, no.2: 49-69. http://doi.org/10.4018/jswis.2005040103

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Abstract

In the current literature of knowledge management and artificial intelligence, several different approaches to the problem have been carried out of developing domain ontologies from scratch. All these approaches deal fundamentally with three problems: (1) providing a collection of general terms describing classes and relations to be employed in the description of the domain itself; (2) organizing the terms into a taxonomy of the classes by the ISA relation; and (3) expressing in an explicit way the constraints that make the ISA pairs meaningful. Though a number of such approaches can be found, no systematic analysis of them exists which can be used to understand the inspiring motivation, the applicability context, and the structure of the approaches. In this paper, we provide a framework for analyzing the existing methodologies that compares them to a set of general criteria. In particular, we obtain a classification based upon the direction of ontology construction; bottom-up are those methodologies that start with some descriptions of the domain and obtain a classification, while top-down ones start with an abstract view of the domain itself, which is given a priori. The resulting classification is useful not only for theoretical purposes but also in the practice of deployment of ontologies in Information Systems, since it provides a framework for choosing the right methodology to be applied in the specific context, depending also on the needs of the application itself.

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