Two Ways for the Automatic Generation of Application Ontologies by Using BalkaNet

Abstract

This article presents two methods for the automatic generation of application ontologies from the multilingual BalkaNet WordNets Web ontology language (OWL) representation. Both proposed methods are applied on the BalkaNet WordNets ontology for the Serbian language (SerWN). The first one uses only the SerWN, both for generating class hierarchy and instances of classes, while the other method combines the SerWN with a domain ontology. The first method was used to automatically generate the FoodOntology, whereas the second method to generate the ontology of rhetorical figures tropes. Preliminary evaluation results corroborate the soundness of the approach. Since BN consists of individual WNs for five Balkan languages and Czech, the methodology presented in this article can also be used for all these languages. The first method can also be used for other domains.