Feten Baccar Ben Amar, Bilel Gargouri, Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou. Towards Generation of Domain Ontology from LMF Standardized Dictionaries. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2010), Redwood City, San Francisco Bay, CA, USA, July 1 - July 3, 2010. pages 515-520, Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School, 2010.
The present paper proposes an approach of domain ontology generation from LMF standardized dictionaries (ISO-24613). The originality of this work lies in the use of a unique and finely-structured source containing multi-domain lexical knowledge of morphological, syntactic and semantic levels, lending itself to ontological interpretations. Our method for the domain ontology generation consists, firstly, in building the core of the target ontology, taking advantage of the LMF standardized dictionary structure. Secondly, it consists in enriching such core starting from textual sources with guided semantic fields available in the definitions and the examples of lexical entries. The reliability of the proposed approach is shown through the illustrations carried out on the Arabic language. This choice is explained not only, by the great deficiency of work on Arabic ontology building, but also by the availability within our research team of an LMF standardized Arabic dictionary.