OntoLP: construção semi-automática de ontologias a partir de textos da lingua portuguesa

Abstract

The internet evolution is in need of more sophisticated knowledge management techniques. In this context, the Semantic Web and Ontologies are being developed as

a way to solve this problem. Ontology learning is, however, a dificult and expensive task. Research on ontology learning is usually based on natural language texts. Language specific tools have to be developed. There is no much research that considers specifically the portuguese language. This work advances in these questions and it considers portuguese in particular. The development and evaluation of methods are presented and discussed. Besides, the developed methods were integrated as a plug-in of the widely used ontology editor Protégé