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Revisiting Ontology Design: A Method Based on Corpus Analysis

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Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Methods, Models, and Tools (EKAW 2000)

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We promote a new approach for knowledge modelling based on knowledge elicitation from technical documents. It benefits of the increasing amount of available electronic texts and of the maturity of natural language processing tools. The approach defines a framework where the knowledge engineer selects the appropriate tools, combines their use and interprets their results to build up a domain model. The paper presents the method and reports an on-going application to design an ontology of knowledge engineering tools in French.

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  1. Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse(IRIT), Université Toulouse 3, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062, TOULOUSE Cedex 4

    Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles

  2. Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris-Nord(LIPN), Université de Paris-Nord, Av. J.B. Clément, 93430, VILLETANEUSE, (France)

    Brigitte Biébow & Sylvie Szulman

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Aussenac-Gilles, N., Biébow, B., Szulman, S. (2000). Revisiting Ontology Design: A Method Based on Corpus Analysis. In: Dieng, R., Corby, O. (eds) Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Methods, Models, and Tools. EKAW 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1937. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39967-4_13

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