A survey of domain ontology engineering: Methods and tools

Abstract

With the advent of the Semantic Web, the field of domain ontology engineering has gained more and more importance. This innovative field may have a big impact on computer-based education and will certainly contribute to its development. This chapter presents a survey on domain ontology engineering and especially domain ontology learning. The chapter focuses particularly on automatic methods for ontology learning. It summarizes the state of the art in natural language processing techniques and statistical and machine learning techniques for ontology extraction. It also explains how intelligent tutoring systems may benefit from this engineering and talks about the challenges that face the field. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.