Ontology Learning and Population from Text Algorithms, Evaluation and Applications /

• Main Author: Cimiano, Philipp (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Computers.; Database management.; Multimedia information systems.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer Science.; Theory of Computation.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Database Management.; Multimedia Information Systems.; Computer Communication Networks.

Standard formalisms for knowledge representation such as RDFS or OWL have been recently developed by the semantic web community and are now in place. However, the crucial question still remains: how will we acquire all the knowledge available in people's heads to feed our machines? Natural lang...

Table of Contents:

• Preliminaries
• Ontologies
• Ontology Learning from Text
• Basics
• Datasets
• Methods and Applications
• Concept Hierarchy Induction
• Learning Attributes and Relations
• Population
• Applications
• Conclusion
• Contribution and Outlook
• Concluding Remarks.