Computer-Assisted Ontology Construction System: Focus on Bootstrapping Capabilities

In this research, we investigate the problem of ontology construction in both automatic and semi-automatic approaches. There are two key issues for the ontology construction process: the cold start problem (i.e. starting the development of an ontology from a blank page) and the lack of availability of domain experts. We describe a functionality for ontology construction based on the bootstrapping feature. For this feature, we take advantage of large public knowledge bases. We report on a comparative study between our system and the existing ones on the wine ontology.