DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING ONTOLOGIES FROM TERM DEFINITIONS CONTAINED INTO A DICTIONARY
First Claim
1. Method for automatically generating ontologies, wherein it consists, each time one receives a term for which an ontology has to be generated, i) of determining the definition of said received term into a dictionary (DC), then ii) of extracting pertinent terms from said determined definition, then iii) of determining the definition of each of said extracted pertinent terms into said dictionary (DC), then iv) of building, for each of said determined definitions of said received term and said extracted pertinent terms, at least one logical clause expressing a relationship between pairs of pertinent terms it contains, said built logical clauses defining the ontology of said received term.
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Abstract
A device (D), intended for automatically generating ontologies, comprises an analysis means (AM) arranged, each time that is received a term for which an ontology must be generated, i) for accessing a dictionary (DC) to determine a definition of this received term, then ii) for extracting pertinent terms from this determined definition, then iii) for accessing the dictionary (DC) to determine the definition of each of the extracted pertinent terms, then iv) for building, for each of the determined definitions of the received term and extracted pertinent terms, at least one logical clause expressing a relationship between pairs of pertinent terms it contains, these built logical clauses defining the ontology of the received term.
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- 1. Method for automatically generating ontologies, wherein it consists, each time one receives a term for which an ontology has to be generated, i) of determining the definition of said received term into a dictionary (DC), then ii) of extracting pertinent terms from said determined definition, then iii) of determining the definition of each of said extracted pertinent terms into said dictionary (DC), then iv) of building, for each of said determined definitions of said received term and said extracted pertinent terms, at least one logical clause expressing a relationship between pairs of pertinent terms it contains, said built logical clauses defining the ontology of said received term.
- 5. Device (D) for automatically generating ontologies, wherein it comprises an analysis means (AM) arranged, each time that is received a term for which an ontology has to be generated, i) for accessing a dictionary (DC) to determine a definition of said received term, then ii) for extracting pertinent terms from said determined definition, then iii) for accessing said dictionary (DC) to determine the definition of each of said extracted pertinent terms, then iv) for building, for each of said determined definitions of said received term and said extracted pertinent terms, at least one logical clause expressing a relationship between pairs of pertinent terms it contains, said built logical clauses defining the ontology of said received term.
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11. Computer software product, wherein it comprises a device (D) for automatically generating ontologies having an analysis means (AM) arranged, each time that is received a term for which an ontology has to be generated, i) for accessing a dictionary (DC) to determine a definition of said received term, then ii) for extracting pertinent terms from said determined definition, then iii) for accessing said dictionary (DC) to determine the definition of each of said extracted pertinent terms, then iv) for building, for each of said determined definitions of said received term and said extracted pertinent terms, at least one logical clause expressing a relationship between pairs of pertinent terms it contains, said built logical clauses defining the ontology of said received term.
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