An ontology is a formal explicit description of concepts in a domain of discourse,
properties of each concept describing various features and attributes of the concept, and restrictions on properties.
An ontology together with a set of individual instances of classes constitutes a knowledge base.
Tribal societies of our country use different languages, symbolism, rituals and religious prayers to describe concepts and their semantics. It would necessitate construction of ontology for each of them separately and synthesis of all of them to facilitate machine learning.
This service includes a Web-enabled Ontology Management Tool which facilitates to create, edit, validate and merge ontologies.
Tribal societies of our country use different languages, symbolism, rituals and religious prayers to describe concepts and their semantics. It would necessitate construction of ontology for each of them separately and synthesis of all of them to facilitate machine learning.
This service includes a Web-enabled Ontology Management Tool which facilitates to create, edit, validate and merge ontologies.
Ontologies can be constructed automatically, semi-automatically or manually. A domain ontology models a specific domain, or part of the world. It represents the particular meanings of terms as they apply to that domain. Domain ontologies are mostly constructed manually or semi-automatically.
In this tool the Ontology construction proceeds semi-automatically. The following methodology is planed for the ontology development. The methodology supports cooperative building of ontology where-in experts may analyze the same or different information resources for a domain and sub-ontologies created by them are to be integrated after resolving the conflicts, if any.
- Corpus Collection: It is likely to consists of
- old and new books, Journals of Medicinal Plants, Web sites of research organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) in English
- Data collected through questionnaire, structured interviews recorded either in text or audio or video form
- Vocabulary Identification: Identification of relevant terms from the corpora, trace of the context in which terms have occurred (i.e. the text surrounding the terms), their definition and some example of possible use.
- Hierarchy Building: Identification of concepts and relationships between them.
- Ontology Formalization in RDF Schema/ OWL