At the Intersection of Ontological Design Patterns and (Semi-) Automatic Database Annotation

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Author(s): Jacqueline Renee Reich (University of Manchester, UK)
Copyright: 2001
Pages: 5
Source title: Managing Information Technology in a Global Economy
Source Editor(s): Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Information Resources Management Association, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-930708-07-5.ch092
ISBN13: 9781930708075
EISBN13: 9781466665323

Keywords: Information Science Reference / IT Research & Theory / IT Research and Theory / Library & Information Science

Abstract

Ontological Design Patterns (ODP) are a technique to improve the design and implementation of ‘ontologies’. ‘Ontologies’ control the language vocabulary of a knowledge domain, related term definitions, and semantic contexts. In combination with Natural Language Processing (NLP) procedures (i.e. text tagging and parsing), ‘ontologies’ including ODPs were used to extract textual information from SWISS-PROT database entries and to compare text fragments of scientific abstracts. The ‘ontologies’ were again applied during database annotation while generating and composing comments out of validated and evaluated textual information units. ODPs proved to increase the reusability of ‘sub-ontologies’, and their flexibility to adapt to different semantic contexts and application tasks.

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