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Ontology generation from web tables: A 1+1+N approach

  • Xu Lei*
  • , Ren Yong
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Tsinghua University

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Abstract

Creating plenty of ontologies is a crucial task for relizing the Semantic Web vision. Techniques of learning ontology from text are far from mature because of the limitations of natual language understanding. However, discovering concepts and relations from tables is much easier. In this paper, we proposed a novel approach to generate ontologies from web tables. Our apporach can be described as a 1+1+N model: one core ontology which contains the core concepts of a given domain and serves as the global ontology, one standard table which serves as a reference during the construction of other ontologies, N new tables from which local ontologies are generated. Type spotters, instance-based schema matching, and some heuristics rules are employed to generate ontologies. Experiment results show that our appoach is feasible and quite effective.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2010 International Forum on Information Technology and Applications, IFITA 2010
Pages234-239
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event2010 International Forum on Information Technology and Applications, IFITA 2010 - Kunming, China
Duration: 16 Jul 201018 Jul 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2010 International Forum on Information Technology and Applications, IFITA 2010
Volume1

Conference

Conference2010 International Forum on Information Technology and Applications, IFITA 2010
Country/TerritoryChina
CityKunming
Period16/07/1018/07/10

Keywords

  • Core ontology
  • Ontology generation
  • Schema matching
  • Standard table

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