SKOS Tool: A Tool for Creating Knowledge Graphs to Support Semantic Text Classification

Abstract

Knowledge graphs are being increasingly adopted in industry in order to add meaning to data and improve the intelligence of data analytics methods. Simple Knowledge Management System (SKOS) is a W3C standard for representation of knowledge graphs in a web-native and machine-understandable format. This paper introduces SKOS Tool; a web-based application developed at the Engineering Informatics Lab at Texas State University. It can be used for creating knowledge graphs and concept schemes based on the SKOS standard. The main feature and functions of SKOS Tool are described in this paper. Beyond creating knowledge graphs, SKOS Tool has additional features that can be used to support semantic document classification based on the Bag of Concepts technique. To demonstrate the utilities of SKOS Tool, a use case related to classifications of manufacturing suppliers with Medical Grade Polymer Tubing capabilities is presented.