Lexicon Based Ontology Construction

Researchers from industry and academia are now exploring the possibility of creating a "Semantic Web," in which meaning is made explicit, allowing machines to process and integrate Web resources intelligently. This technology will allow interoperability among development of intelligent internet agents in large scale, facilitating communication between a multitude of heterogeneous web-accessible devices. Unfortunately the majority of the information available is in a format understandable to humans alone, making the automation of search and retrieval processes very hard [Berners-Lee02]. Ontologies will provide the necessary meaning to web content therefore enabling software agents to understand and retrieve information in relevant contexts [Gruber93].