Abstract:

The learning of a specific subject by a neophyte sometimes is a hard task. Considering an efficient way to accelerate the knowledge transfer task, this paper proposes the use of computational Ontology strictly as Knowledge Representation. A practical methodology for an easy and fast construction and visualisation of domain ontologies, from scratch, was described by considering the extraction of paradigmatic concepts from classical books within the domain through Text Mining, Link Analysis and Graph Analysis techniques. The notion of context in which certain concepts together can shed light on an expert to elucidate some assertive sentences was used to build domain ontology. A visual tool prototype to search within the created ontology, based on a contextual ontological approach, can help neophytes learn fundamental concepts and references through different viewpoints; after all, life and knowledge are a sum of different connected viewpoints.

Keywords:

Ontology, building domain ontology, ontology visualisation, learning by ontology