Extracting ontological concepts for tendering conceptual structures

  • Authors:
  • Ahmad Kayed;Robert M. Colomb

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science and Electric Engineering, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia;Computer Science and Electric Engineering, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Data & Knowledge Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

It has been argued that beyond software engineering and process engineering, ontological engineering is the third capability needed if successful e-commerce is to be realized. In our experience of building an ontological-based tendering system, we face the problem of building an ontology. In this paper, we demonstrate how to build ontologies in the tendering domain. The ontology life cycle is identified. Extracting concepts from existing resources like on-line catalogs is described. We have reused electronic data interchange (EDI) to build conceptual structures in the tendering domain. An algorithm to extract abstract ontological concepts from these structures is proposed.