Exploiting the Arabic Wikipedia for semi-automatic construction of a lexical ontology. (1st January 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Boudabous, Mohamed Mahdi; Belguith, Lamia Hadrich; Sadat, Fatiha
• Is Part Of: International journal of metadata, semantics and ontologies. Volume 8:Number 3(2013)
• Page Start: 245
• Page End: 253
• Publication Date: 2013-01-01
• Subjects: Arabic Wikipedia -- Arabic ontology -- ontology -- lexical ontology -- Arabic lexical ontology -- morpho-lexical patterns -- semantic relations; Metadata -- Periodicals; Semantic Web -- Periodicals; Ontologies (Information retrieval) -- Periodicals; Data structures (Computer science) -- Periodicals; Information theory -- Periodicals; 005.74
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-2621

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a hybrid (numerical/linguistic) method to build a lexical ontology for the Arabic language. This method is based on the Arabic Wikipedia. It consists of two phases: analysing the description section in order to build core ontology and then using the physical structure of Wikipedia articles (info-boxes, category pages and redirect links) and their contents for enriching the core ontology. The building phase of the core ontology is implemented via the TBAO system. The obtained core ontology contains more than 200, 000 concepts.