Ontological summaries through hierarchical clustering

  • Authors:
  • Troels Andreasen;Henrik Bulskov;Thomas Vestskov Terney

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark;Department of Computer Science, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark;Department of Computer Science, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • ISMIS'08 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Foundations of intelligent systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

One approach to deal with large query answers or large collections of text documents is to impose some kind of structure to the collection for instance by a grouping into clusters of somehow related or close items. Another approach is to consider characteristics of the collection for instance by considering central and/or as a frequent keywords possibly taken from a background vocabulary or a more thorough structuring of background knowledge, like taxonomies or ontologies. In this paper we present a preliminary approach to combine these directions. More specifically we address an approach where conceptual summaries can be provided as answers to queries or survey over a document collection. The general idea is to apply a background knowledge ontology in connection with a combined clustering and generalization of keywords. Preliminary experiments with Wordnet as background knowledge and excerpts from Semcor as data are presented and discussed.