%0 Journal Article %1 brewster2003 %A Brewster, Fabio Ciravegna. Christopher %A Wilks, Yorick %D 2003 %J Proceedings of the SIGIR Semantic Web Workshop %K ontology ontologylearning %T Background and Foreground Knowledge in Dynamic Ontology Construction: Viewing Text as Knowledge Maintenance %X Ontologies have become a key component in the Semantic Web and Knowledge management. One accepted goal is to construct ontologies from a domain specific set of texts. An ontology reflects the background knowledge used in writing and reading a text. However, a text is an act of knowledge maintenance, in that it re-enforces the background assumptions, alters links and associations in the ontology, and adds new concepts. This means that background knowledge is rarely expressed in a machine interpretable manner. When it is, it is usually in the conceptual boundaries of the domain, e.g. in textbooks or when ideas are borrowed into other domains. We argue that a partial solution to this lies in searching external resources such as specialized glossaries and the internet. We show that a random selection of concept pairs from the Gene Ontology do not occur in a relevant corpus of texts from the journal Nature. In contrast, a significant proportion can be found on the internet. Thus, we conclude that sources external to the domain corpus are necessary for the automatic construction of ontologies.

@article{brewster2003, abstract = {Ontologies have become a key component in the Semantic Web and Knowledge management. One accepted goal is to construct ontologies from a domain specific set of texts. An ontology reflects the background knowledge used in writing and reading a text. However, a text is an act of knowledge maintenance, in that it re-enforces the background assumptions, alters links and associations in the ontology, and adds new concepts. This means that background knowledge is rarely expressed in a machine interpretable manner. When it is, it is usually in the conceptual boundaries of the domain, e.g. in textbooks or when ideas are borrowed into other domains. We argue that a partial solution to this lies in searching external resources such as specialized glossaries and the internet. We show that a random selection of concept pairs from the Gene Ontology do not occur in a relevant corpus of texts from the journal Nature. In contrast, a significant proportion can be found on the internet. Thus, we conclude that sources external to the domain corpus are necessary for the automatic construction of ontologies. }, added-at = {2008-07-16T14:20:56.000+0200}, author = {Brewster, Fabio Ciravegna. Christopher and Wilks, Yorick}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/22888d6d64a87975c5317d314038f2eae/enterldestodes}, interhash = {41043d25c6a75b4bb678ea0167d3ce61}, intrahash = {2888d6d64a87975c5317d314038f2eae}, journal = {Proceedings of the SIGIR Semantic Web Workshop}, keywords = {ontology ontologylearning}, timestamp = {2008-07-16T14:20:56.000+0200}, title = {Background and Foreground Knowledge in Dynamic Ontology Construction: Viewing Text as Knowledge Maintenance }, year = 2003 }