Research on Chinese Domain Ontology Modeling Based on Automatic Knowledge Acquirement from Multiple Dictionaries

In this paper, we present an ontology modeling tool for building Chinese domain ontology, which not only offers automatic acquisition knowledge from multiple dictionaries, but also corresponds with a dictionary-based ontology modeling methodology that combines methontology and throwaway prototype. By using a case study of spatial information science ontology modeling, the theoretical method and implementation tool of dictionary-based ontology modeling are presented in details. Experience shows that automatic acquisition knowledge from multiple dictionaries for ontology modeling is feasible and merging knowledge between multiple dictionaries can make assistant modeling more effective.