A Semantic-based Clustering Method to Build Domain Ontology from Multiple Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources

IntroductionNowadays ,there are a large number of heterogeneousknowledge sources in an enterprise or a VirtualManufacturing Organization( VMO) . For example ,expertsystems , data warehouse , books , manuals , standards ,experts , and so on. Heterogeneity in knowledge sourcesare due to1 4]:(1) Some are represented explicitly (eg.expert systems) ,some are represented i mplicitly as schemas of database ordata warehouse , while some are stored in experts brains .Implicitly represented knowledg…

A Semantic-based Clustering Method to Build Domain Ontology from Multiple Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources

In order to improve the efficiency of ontology construction from heterogeneous knowledge sources, a semantic-based approach is presented. The ontology will be constructed with the application of cluster technique in an incremental way. Firstly, terms will be extracted from knowledge sources and congregate a term set after pretreat-ment. Then the concept set will be built via semantic-based clustering according to semanteme of terms provided by WordNet. Next, a concept tree is constructed in terms of mapping rules between semant~me relationships and concept relationships. The semi-automatic approach can avoid non-consistence due to knowledge engineers having different understanding of the same concept and the obtained ontology is easily to be expanded.