An Intelligent Ontology Construction System Using Hybrid ART Neural Network and C-value Method

In recent years, many efforts have been done to design ontology learning methods and automate ontology construction process. The ontology construction process is a time-consuming and costly procedure for almost all domains/applications, so automating this process is a solution to overcome the knowledge acquisition bottleneck in information systems and reduce the construction cost. In this article a novel intelligent ontology learning method is proposed which can be used in many domains and applications. The proposed learning system has no need for initial common or specialized input ontologies or predefined semantic terms; indeed, the initial database anonly consists of input texts sets. The proposed learning system could extract associated ontologies of various domains using combined methods. To do this, a combination of linguistic, statisticaland machine learning methods based on the C-value method, the TF-IDF one, the neural network, and co occurance analysis are applied. So, first domain-related documents were collected. Then natural language processing methods such as C-value method were implemented for extracting meaningful terms from documents. Next, ART (Adaptive Resonance Theory) neural network was used to cluster documents and associated weight of terms was calculated by TF–IDF method in order to find candidate keyword for each cluster. Finally, co-occurrence analysis was used to construct concept hierarchy and complete the ontology. Results show that the proposed ontology learning method has a high precision comparing to similar studies.