Constructing the relationship between concepts in government ontology based on E-Government Thesauri

The paper first reviews the present situation of the construction of ontology in China; then introduces the general e-government thesaurus and reviews the relationships between terms. The authors discuss the basic relationships and summarize 15 relationships between the classes in government ontology. Furthermore, in order to construct government ontology based on the general e-government thesaurus, the semantic relationships between terms of the thesaurus need to be adapted. So the authors present the idea of facet reform of the general e-government thesaurus, and analyze the application of facet thesaurus in the construction of government ontology. Finally, a case which takes the class of ldquoproductrdquo as an example is given to demonstrate that. The paper aims to summarize relationships between concepts in the construction of government ontology.