Automatic Generation of Ontology from Data Source Directed by Meta Models

Through this paper we present a method for automatic
generation of ontological model from any data source using Model
Driven Architecture (MDA), this generation is dedicated to the
cooperation of the knowledge engineering and software engineering.
Indeed, reverse engineering of a data source generates a software
model (schema of data) that will undergo transformations to generate
the ontological model. This method uses the meta-models to validate
software and ontological models.

• Widad Jakjoud
• Mohamed Bahaj
• Jamal Bakkas

• Meta model
• model
• ontology
• data source.

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