Ontology Population Task

An Ontology Population Task is a database population task that restricts itself to adding relevant concept records and relation records into an ontology.

• AKA: Ontology Population, Ontology Enrichment.
• Context:
  • It can be solved by a Knowledge Engineer (likely using an Ontology Population System).
  • It can range from being a Manual Ontology Population Task to being an Automatic Ontology Population Task.
  • It can range from being an Ontology Concept Addition Task to being an Ontology Relation Addition Task.
  • It can range from being an Ontology Instance Concept Addition Task to being an Ontology Class Concept Addition Task.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Ontology Design Task.
  • an Ontology Maintenance Task.
  • an Ontology Concept Deletion Task.
• See: Resolution Task, Information Extraction Task.

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References

2004

• (Gómez-Pérez et al., 2004) ⇒ Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Mariano Fernández-López, and Oscar Corcho. (2004). “Ontological Engineering. Springer. ISBN:1852335513

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