Ontology learning aims at reducing the time and efforts in the ontology development
process. In recent years, several methods and tools have been proposed to speed up this …

Ontological Engineering refers to the set of activities that concern the ontology development
process, the ontology life cycle, the methods and methodologies for building ontologies, and …

In 1991, the DARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort ([88], p. 37) envisioned a new way to build
intelligent systems. It proposed the following: Building knowledge-based systems today …

Enabling information interoperability, fostering legal knowledge usability and reuse,
enhancing legal information search, in short, formalizing the complexity of legal knowledge …

The need for interoperable semantics in modern information systems forces to develop more
and more intelligent solutions. The increasing demand for these solutions, the explosion of …

This paper discusses a method for corpus-driven ontology design: extracting conceptual
hierarchies from arbitrary domain-specific collections of texts. These hierarchies can form …

Information Technology has already transformed the way people work and has an
increasing impact on the long life learning. New approaches mainly based on the utilization …

Ontologies are formal, explicit specifications of shared conceptualizations. There is much
literature on what they are, how they can be engineered and where they can be used inside …

Le travail présenté dans ce mémoire d'habilitation à diriger des recherches cherche à faire
le point sur le domaine de l'Ingénierie des connaissances et à étudier ses apports, présents …

Ontologies now play an important role in providing a commonly agreed understanding of a
domain and in develo** knowledge-based systems. They intend to capture the intrinsic …