Practical Issues for Building a Product Ontology System

Authors:
Ig-hoon Lee;Suekyung Lee;Taehee Lee;Sang-goo Lee;Dongkyu Kim;Jonghoon Chun;Hyunja Lee
Affiliations:
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea;School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea;School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea;School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea;CoreLogix Corp. RIACT #414, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea;CoreLogix Corp. RIACT #414, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea;Dept of Computer Science Sookmyung Womenýs University Seoul, Korea
Venue:
DEEC '05 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce
Year:
2005

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Abstract

A base of clearly defined product information is a key foundation for an e-commerce system. The manipulation and exchange of semantically enriched and precise product information can enhance the quality of an ecommerce system and offer a high level of interoperability with other systems. Product information consists of product attributes and the relationships between products. Product categorization (or classification) is one type of such relationships. Ontology can play an important role in the formalization of product information. Although the idea of utilizing ontology for e-Catalogs has been raised before, we are yet to find an operational implementation of applying ontology in the domain. In this paper, we report on our recent effort to build an operational product ontology system for the government procurement service. The system is designed to serve as a product ontology knowledge base; not only for the design and construction of product databases but also for search and discovery of products. We introduce some of the issues that we have experienced in the project, so that our work may serve as a reference model for similar projects in the future.