ECAI 2004 Conference Paper

Extending a Lexicon Ontology for Intelligent Information Integration

Roberta Benassi, Sonia Bergamaschi, Alain Fergnani, Daniele Miselli

One of the current research on the Semantic Web area is semantic annotation of information sources. On-line lexical ontologies can be exploited as a-priori common knowledge to provide meaningful machine-readable metadata. Nevertheless, the absence of concepts related to specific domains often cause a loss of semantics. In this paper we present WNEditor, a tool whose aim is to guide the annotation designer during the creation of domain lexical ontologies, extending the pre-existing WordNet ontology. New lexicons, meanings and relations between terms are virtually added and managed in respect to the WordNet internal organization.

Keywords: Ontologies, Data Integration Systems, Semantic Annotation, Lexicon Ontology

Citation: Roberta Benassi, Sonia Bergamaschi, Alain Fergnani, Daniele Miselli: Extending a Lexicon Ontology for Intelligent Information Integration. In R.López de Mántaras and L.Saitta (eds.): ECAI2004, Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2004, pp.278-282.

ECAI-2004 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by the Universitat Politècnica de València on behalf of Asociación Española de Inteligencia Artificial (AEPIA) and Associació Catalana d'Intel-ligència Artificial (ACIA).