A Context-based Method for Petroleum Exploration Domain Ontology Construction

Abstract

Due to the diverse nature of business products and operations in different geographic locations, petroleum industries demand more accurate and precise information and data. Ontology is playing an important role in knowledge management and sharing, both users and system can communicate with each other using a common understanding knowledge of a domain. This study proposes a context-based ontology construction method for extracting petroleum exploration domain ontology from unstructured Chinese text documents. The proposed approach includes the steps of (i) domain documents preprocessing, (ii) concept clustering based on the fuzzy c-means, (iii) context extraction, and (iv) domain ontology construction. Experimental results show the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed approach.