NQCG is supporting the development of a platform for semi-automatic construction and manipulation of industry-quality ontologies.
This initiative will suggest a methodology for ontology development and use and provide a collaborative environment incorporating a range of state of the art techniques to aid in the creation, evolution and adoption of ontologies in the nanotechnology domain. Our focus is to provide cost-effective practical technologies to assist in the process of production of high-quality ontologies.
The technologies and models used in the platform target the needs of the industry and the research community at different levels:
- Provision of a seamless infrastructure for development
Open collaborative infrastructure supporting a range of different media and providing continuously available resources for cooperation and exchange
- Provision of intelligent search & mining
Offering content-based processing and reasoning about domain-dependent data sources
- Provision of a communication portal
Including provision of interactive, value-increasing services and information for collaboration within and across communities and organizations, and for citizens and members alike
The platform will support semi-automatic learning and evolution of ontologies from text; the incorporation of logical and statistical techniques for ontology manipulation and refinement; and will provide a full-fledged ontology for searching and mining nano science and nanotechnology research papers.
The platform will be demonstrated by applications to case studies relevant to the nanotechnology domain.