Abstract
Digitization of data has now come in a big way in almost every possible aspects of modern life. Agriculture as a domain is no exception. But digitization alone does not suffice, efficient retrievability of the information has to be ensured for providing web services including question-answering. However, building an ontology for a vast domain as a whole is not straightforward. We view creation of an ontology as an incremental process, where small-scale ontologies for different sub-domains are expected to be developed independently, to be merged into a single ontology for the domain. The paper aims at designing a framework for ontology merging. The method is described with agriculture as the primary domain with several subdomains such as crop, fertilizer, as subdomains among others. The supremacy of the scheme over Protégé, a well-known ontology management software is demonstrated.
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The work has been supported by Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Government of India in the form of a sponsored project entitled “Development of Tools for Automatic Term Extraction and RDFization of Agriculture Terms with focus on Crops sub-domain”.
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Chatterjee, N., Kaushik, N., Gupta, D., Bhatia, R. (2018). Ontology Merging: A Practical Perspective. In: Satapathy, S., Joshi, A. (eds) Information and Communication Technology for Intelligent Systems (ICTIS 2017) - Volume 2. ICTIS 2017. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 84. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63645-0_15
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