Knowledge Mining Wikipedia: An Ontological Approach (original) (raw)

2011, … Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science …

The organization of information in this knowledge economy has become a primary business process in many enterprises. The better such information is organized and stored, the easier it can be retrieved, so that the most relevant information will always be available when needed. Ontology is a versatile technology for organizing information, however the main obstacle that prevents ontology prevailing is the difficulty in its management, i.e., the building and maintaining of ontology. In order to solve this problem, a structured knowledge source is needed. In this paper, a thorough review on the feasibility of using Wikipedia as the source for ontology management is presented. Different approaches that are based on the use of Wikipedia for such purposes are discussed. Finally, an ontology management system, based on the use of Wikipedia as the knowledge source, is proposed.