Title :
Development of Flora-Oriented Plant Ontology
Author :
Shi, Jing ; Huang, Lin
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Inf. Eng., Northwest A&F Univ., Yangling, China
fDate :
Nov. 30 2009-Dec. 1 2009
Abstract :
Free text botanical descriptions contained in printed floras can provide a wealth of valuable scientific information. Domain ontology is greatly useful in knowledge acquisition, sharing and analysis. In order to acquire the richness of the information contained in Chinese floras efficaciously, we introduced the flora-oriented plant ontology (FPO) into the process of knowledge acquisition. In view of the botanical description´s characteristic in the floras, this paper constructed the domain ontology mainly from the aspect of floristic morphologic description. FPO can reflect the flora domain knowledge hierarchical structure clearly, and can be used for application systems, such as information extraction systems and information retrieval systems.
Keywords :
biology computing; botany; knowledge acquisition; ontologies (artificial intelligence); Chinese floras; flora domain knowledge hierarchical structure; flora-oriented plant ontology; floristic morphologic description; free text botanical descriptions; information extraction systems; information retrieval systems; knowledge acquisition; Artificial intelligence; Buildings; Data mining; Databases; Educational institutions; Encoding; Information retrieval; Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge engineering; Ontologies; flora-oriented; ontology construction; plant ontology;
Conference_Titel :
Knowledge Acquisition and Modeling, 2009. KAM '09. Second International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3888-4
DOI :
10.1109/KAM.2009.122
