Extracción de elementos de una ontología del dominio a partir de documentos tipo esquema

This work is relevant to the field of Ontology Learning, which investigates automatic and semiautomatic techniques for the con str u ct ion of on t ologies. Gen er a lly, constr uct ion of ontologies has two types of problems, a modeling problem and a r epresentation pr oblem. This ar ticle proposes a technique that br ings in the solution of the first type of problem. The proposed technique applies cer ta in heur istics to a set of XML schema documents r elated to the same domain. The basic idea for the proposal is based on two aspects. The first is the fact that XML is currently the most widely used language for shar ing information on the Web. The second is that people, who generate XML schema documents, use ter ms of the doma in to name tags on their Gloria Lucía Giraldo G 1 , PhD., Juan Carlos Marín 2 , Ing., & German Urrego Giraldo 3 , PhD. 1. Profesora Asociada. Grupo de Investigación en Lenguajes Computacionales. Escuela de Sistemas. Facultad de Minas. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Medellín. 2. Ingeniero. Analista de soluciones de TI. 3. Grupo de investigación ITOS­Ingeniería y Tecnología de las Organizaciones y la Sociedad. Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas. Universidad de Antioquia. [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] documents. Especially, when the or ganizations that use those documen ts, ar e gover ned by a body of standa r d izat ion and normalization, is expected to find in them important information representative of the domain. Keywords— Ontology Learning, XML, Schema Documents.