The automatic initialization of an object-oriented knowledge base

  • Authors:
  • Jose L. Cordova;Julia E. Hodges

  • Affiliations:
  • Mississippi State, MS;Mississippi State, MS

  • Venue:
  • ACM-SE 30 Proceedings of the 30th annual Southeast regional conference
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

This paper describes mechanisms for automatically building an initial set of knowledge base objects by processing natural language text in a restricted domain. A separate component assigns syntactic and domain-specific semantic tags to each of the words in the text. The syntactic and semantic tags are used to generate names of objects to be added to specific semantic classes in the knowledge base. An algorithm to ensure that the knowledge base objects created are not redundant is specified. The definition and organization of metaknowledge structures is also discussed. To ensure that the name generation and knowledge management techniques are domain-independent, any domain-specific information is isolated in a knowledge base definition file.