Decision support Systems Paper Accepted on A Semantic Approach for Extracting Domain Taxonomies from Text

ECBI members dr. Flavius Frasincar and Frederik Hogenboom published an article on a semantic approach for extracting domain taxonomies from text in the P-ranked Decision Support Systems journal.

In their article, Frasincar and Hogenboom present a framework for the automatic building of a domain taxonomy from text corpora, called Automatic Taxonomy Construction from Text (ATCT). This framework comprises four steps. First, terms are extracted from a corpus of documents. From these extracted terms the ones that are most relevant for a specific domain are selected using a filtering approach in the second step. Third, the selected terms are disambiguated by means of a word sense disambiguation technique and concepts are generated. In the final step, the broader–narrower relations between concepts are determined using a subsumption technique that makes use of concept co-occurrences in a text. For evaluation, Frasincar and Hogenboom assess the performance of the ATCT framework using the semantic precision, semantic recall, and the taxonomic F-measure that take into account the concept semantics. The proposed framework is evaluated in the field of economics and management as well as the medical domain.

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