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Re-Engineering Approach to Build Domain Ontologies

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Building ontology is changing from being an art to be a science. There are many attempts to re-engineer the process of building ontology [4], to categorize the applications that use ontology for better understanding [23], to study the common features of well-known existing ontologies [18], to provide environment and tools for ontology development [5], and to provide theoretical foundations for ontology [10]. In our experience of building ontological-base tendering system [15], we face the problem of building ontology. From these efforts and from our experience we demonstrate how to build ontologies for tendering process domain using conceptual graphs. Instead of reinventing the wheel, we reverse engineer EDI structures to build abstract ontology for tendering structures. Also, we use data-mining techniques to build abstract domain ontology from existing on-line catalogs.

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  1. Computer Science and Electric Engineering, University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD, 4072, Australia

    Ahmad Kayed & Robert M. Colomb

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  1. Department of Systems and Information Engineering, Maebashi Institute of Technology, 460-1 Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City, 371-0816, Japan

    Ning Zhong

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, S4S 0A2

    Yiju Yao

  3. Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, 224 Waterloo Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Jiming Liu

  4. Department of Information and Computer Science, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, 169, Japan

    Setsuo Ohsuga

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Kayed, A., Colomb, R.M. (2001). Re-Engineering Approach to Build Domain Ontologies. In: Zhong, N., Yao, Y., Liu, J., Ohsuga, S. (eds) Web Intelligence: Research and Development. WI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2198. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45490-X_60

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