Automatic ontology generation
US10540383B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 21, 2016 |
| Grant date | Jan 21, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 16, 2038 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/355
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An ontology is automatically generated for a set of data from multiple data sources. A semantic network of known concepts serves as an ontology template for a target domain of knowledge with known concepts defined as base entity types. Logical groupings of data and associated technical metadata are read from the data sources. Data discovery techniques are applied to detect semantic and/or syntactic classification of data attributes in the logical groupings of data. For each of the logical groupings of data, an entity type with properties for the data attributes are generated and the generated entity type is added to the semantic network with classifications of the properties as derived from the applied data discovery techniques. Semantic meanings of the generated entity types are generated and associated with other entity types within the semantic network and the semantic network is output as a resultant ontology for the set of data.
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