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      “All you can eat” ontology-building: Feeding Wikipedia to Cyc

      Sarjant, Samuel; Legg, Catherine; Robinson, Michael; Medelyan, Olena
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       10.1109/WI-IAT.2009.60
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      Sarjant, S., Legg, C., Roninson, M. & Medelyan, O. (2009). “All you can eat” ontology-building: Feeding Wikipedia to Cyc. Paper to be presented at the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-09), 15 – 18 September 2009 Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/2752
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      In order to achieve genuine web intelligence, building some kind of large general machine-readable conceptual scheme (i.e. ontology) seems inescapable. Yet the past 20 years have shown that manual ontology-building is not practicable. The recent explosion of free user-supplied knowledge on the Web has led to great strides in automatic ontology building,

      but quality-control is still a major issue. Ideally one should automatically build onto an already intelligent base. We suggest that the long-running Cyc project is able to assist here. We describe methods used to add 35K new concepts mined from Wikipedia to collections in ResearchCyc entirely automatically. Evaluation with 22 human subjects shows high precision both for the new concepts’ categorization, and their assignment as individuals or collections. Most importantly we show how Cyc itself can be leveraged for ontological quality control by ‘feeding’ it assertions one by one, enabling it to reject those that contradict its other knowledge.
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      2009
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      Conference Contribution
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      IEEE Computer Society
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      This article has been accepted for publication by IEEE. © 2009 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
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