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Learning Subsumption Hierarchies of Ontology Concepts from Texts
Ilias Zavitsanos, George Paliouras, George Vouros and Sergios Petridis
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal
Volume preprint,
2008.
AbstractThis paper proposes a method for learning ontologies given a corpus of text documents. The method identifies concepts in documents and organizes them into a subsumption hierarchy, without presupposing the existence of a seed ontology. The method uncovers latent topics for generating document text. The discovered topics form the concepts of the new ontology. Concept discovery is done in a language neutral way, using probabilistic space reduction techniques over the original term space
of the corpus. Furthermore, the proposed method constructs a subsumption hierarchy of the concepts by performing conditional
independence tests among pairs of latent topics, given a third one. The paper provides experimental results on the Genia and the Lonely Planet corpora from the domains of molecular biology and tourism respectively. [Edit]
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