Journal of Integrative Agriculture ›› 2012, Vol. 11 ›› Issue (5): 741-751.DOI: 10.1016/S1671-2927(00)8595

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Ontology Engineering and Knowledge Services for Agriculture Domain

 Asanee Kawtrakul   

  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand  
  • 收稿日期:2011-06-28 出版日期:2012-05-01 发布日期:2012-07-18
  • 通讯作者: Correspondence Asanee Kawtrakul, E-mail: asanee_naist@yahoo.com
  • 作者简介:Asanee Kawtrakul, E-mail: asanee_naist@yahoo.com

Ontology Engineering and Knowledge Services for Agriculture Domain

 Asanee Kawtrakul   

  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand
  • Received:2011-06-28 Online:2012-05-01 Published:2012-07-18
  • Contact: Correspondence Asanee Kawtrakul, E-mail: asanee_naist@yahoo.com
  • About author:Asanee Kawtrakul, E-mail: asanee_naist@yahoo.com

摘要: This paper presents a knowledge service system for the domain of agriculture. Three key issues for providing knowledge services are how to improve the access of unstructured and scattered information for the non-specialist users, how to provide adequate information to knowledge workers and how to provide the information requiring highly focused and related information. Cyber-Brain has been designed as a platform that combines approaches based on knowledge engineering and language engineering to gather knowledge from various sources and to provide the effective knowledge service. Based on specially designed ontology for practical service scenarios, it can aggregate knowledge from Internet, digital archives, expert, and other resources for providing one-stop-shop knowledge services. The domain specific and task oriented ontology also enables advanced search and allows the system ensures that knowledge service could improve the user benefit. Users are presented with the necessary information closely related to their information need and thus of potential high interest. This paper presents several service scenarios for different end-users and reviews ontology engineering and its life cycle for supporting AOS (Agricultural Ontology Services) Vocbench which is the heart of knowledge services in agriculture domain.

关键词: knowledge service, ontology construction, ontology design, ontology maintenance, natural language processing, ontology based knowledge services

Abstract: This paper presents a knowledge service system for the domain of agriculture. Three key issues for providing knowledge services are how to improve the access of unstructured and scattered information for the non-specialist users, how to provide adequate information to knowledge workers and how to provide the information requiring highly focused and related information. Cyber-Brain has been designed as a platform that combines approaches based on knowledge engineering and language engineering to gather knowledge from various sources and to provide the effective knowledge service. Based on specially designed ontology for practical service scenarios, it can aggregate knowledge from Internet, digital archives, expert, and other resources for providing one-stop-shop knowledge services. The domain specific and task oriented ontology also enables advanced search and allows the system ensures that knowledge service could improve the user benefit. Users are presented with the necessary information closely related to their information need and thus of potential high interest. This paper presents several service scenarios for different end-users and reviews ontology engineering and its life cycle for supporting AOS (Agricultural Ontology Services) Vocbench which is the heart of knowledge services in agriculture domain.

Key words: knowledge service, ontology construction, ontology design, ontology maintenance, natural language processing, ontology based knowledge services