SAMOVAR: Using Ontologies and Text-Mining for Building an Automobile Project Memory

  • Joanna Golebiowska
  • Rose Dieng-Kuntz
  • Olivier Corby
  • Didier Mousseau
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Abstract

This paper describes SAMOVAR (Systems Analysis of Modeling and Validation of Renault Automobiles), aiming at preserving the memory of the problems encountered during a project in automobile design so as to reuse them in new projects. SAMOVAR relies on (1) the semi-automatic building of ontologies by using a linguistic tool on a textual corpus, (2) the “semantic” annotations of the problem descriptions relatively to these ontologies, (3) the formalization of the ontologies and annotations in RDF(S), (4) the integration of the semantic search engine CORESE that enables an ontology-guided search in the base of problem descriptions.

Key words

Project memory Ontology Text-mining Linguistic Tool Natural Language Processing Semantic Annotation Information retrieval Database RDF(S) 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Joanna Golebiowska
    • 1
    • 2
  • Rose Dieng-Kuntz
    • 1
  • Olivier Corby
    • 1
  • Didier Mousseau
    • 2
  1. 1.INRIAACACIA ProjectSophia-Antipolis CedexFrance
  2. 2.RENAULTTPZ D12 138, DTSI/DTPU/KMPDBoulogneFrance

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