Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is the ability to identify the meaning of words in context
in a computational manner. WSD is considered an AI-complete problem, that is, a task …

Ontology is one of the fundamental cornerstones of the semantic Web. The pervasive use of
ontologies in information sharing and knowledge management calls for efficient and …

Ontologies have gained a lot of popularity and recognition in the semantic web because of
their extensive use in Internet-based applications. Ontologies are often considered a fine …

We provide a comprehensive survey of the research literature that applies Information
Extraction techniques in a Semantic Web setting. Works in the intersection of these two …

Knowledge acquisition has been a critical bottleneck in building knowledge-based systems.
In past decades, several methods and systems have been proposed to cope with this …

This volume brings together ontology learning, knowledge acquisition and other related
topics. It presents current research in ontology learning, addressing three perspectives. The …

Defining a formal domain ontology is generally considered a useful, not to say necessary
step in almost every software project. This is because software deals with ideas rather than …

Defining a formal domain ontology is generally considered a useful, not to say necessary
step in almost every software project. This is because software deals with ideas rather than …

We present a method and a tool, OntoLearn, aimed at the extraction of domain ontologies
from Web sites, and more generally from documents shared among the members of virtual …

Ontology is an effective conceptualism commonly used for the semantic Web. Fuzzy logic
can be incorporated to ontology to represent uncertainty information. Typically, fuzzy …