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Automatic Term Relationship Cleaning and Refinement for AGROVOC

Year of publication 2005

Pages 9

Author Asanee Kawtrakul , Aurawan Imsombut , Aree Thunyakijjanukit , Dagobert Soergel , Anita Liang, Margherita Sini, Gudrun Johannsen, and Johannes Keizer

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) AGROVOC is a multilingual thesaurus developed and maintained by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. Like all thesauri, it contains some explicit semantics, which allow it to be transformed into an ontology or used as a resource for ontology construction. However, most thesauri, AGROVOC included, give very broad relationships that lack the semantic precision needed in an ontology. Many relationships in a thesaurus are incorrectly applied or defined too broadly. According ly, extracting ontological relationships from a thesaurus requires data cleaning and refinement of semantic relationships. This paper presents a hybrid approach for (semi-)automatically detecting these problematic relationships and for suggesting more precisely defined ones. The system consists of three main modules: Rule Acquisition, Detection and Suggestion, and Verification. The Refinement Rule Acquisition module is used to acquire rules specified by experts and through machine learning. The Detection and Suggestion module uses noun phrase analysis and WordNet alignment to detect incorrect relationships and to suggest more appropriate ones based on the application of the acquired rules. The Verification module is a tool for confirming the proposed relationships. We are currently trying to apply the learning system with some semantic relationships to test our method.

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