A Method for Semi-Automatic Ontology Acquisition from a Corporate Intranet

Abstract

The focused access to knowledge resources like intranet documents plays a vital role in knowledge management and supports in general the shifting towards a Semantic Web. Ontologies act as a conceptual backbone for semantic document access by providing a common understanding and conceptualization of a domain. Building domain-specific ontologies is a time-consuming and expensive manual construction task. This paper describes our actual and ongoing work in supporting semi-automatic ontology acquisition from a corporate intranet of an insurance company. We present a comprehensive architecture and generic method for discovering a domain-tailored ontology from given intranet resources. 1 Introduction The amount of information available to corporate employees has grown drastically with the use of intranets. Unfortunately this growth of available information has made the access to useful or necessary information much more difficult due to the fact that the access is usually based on ...