Method for Concept Labeling Based on Mapping between Ontology and Thesaurus

When designing information systems that deal with large amount of domain knowledge, system designers need to consider ambiguities of labeling termsin domain vocabulary for navigating users in the information space. The goal of this study is to develop a methodology for system designers to label navigation items, taking account of ambiguities stems from synonyms or polysemes of labeling terms. In this paper, we propose a method for concept labeling based on mappings between domain ontology andthesaurus, and report results of an empirical evaluation.

Authors:

• Kazuki Sonoda
• Masahiro Hori

Keywords:

• Concept Labeling
• Ontology
• Thesaurus
• VocabularyProblem

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