Mining the Web for learning ontologies: State of art and critical review

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to investigate and present the subject of building ontologies using the Semantic Web Mining that is defined as the combination of the two fast-developing research areas Semantic Web and Web Mining. Web mining is the application of data mining techniques to the content, structure, and usage of Web resources and The Semantic Web is the second-generation WWW, enriched by machine-processable information which supports the user in his tasks. This can help to discover global as well as local structure “models” or “patterns” within and between Web pages and ontology extraction witch is the automatic or semi-automatic creation of ontologies, including extracting the corresponding domain's terms and the relationships between those concepts, and encoding them with an ontology language for easy retrieval. As building ontologies manually is extremely labor-intensive and time-consuming, there is great motivation to automate the process. This paper gives an overview of where the two areas meet today, and discuss ways of how a closer integration could be profitable.