Building Large Lexicalized Ontologies from Text: a Use Case in Automatic Indexing of Biotechnology Patents

Claire Nédellec, Wiktoria Golik, Sophie Aubin, Robert Bossy

Abstract: This paper presents a tool, TyDI, and methods experimented in the building of a termino-ontology, i.e. a lexicalized ontology aimed at fine-grained indexation for semantic search applications. TyDI provides facilities for knowledge engineers and domain experts to efficiently collaborate to validate, organize and conceptualize corpus extracted terms. A use case on biotechnology patent search demonstrates TyDI's potential.