A First Step towards Extending the Materials Design Ontology

Mina Abd Nikooie Pour, Huanyu Li, Rickard Armiento, Patrick Lambrix

Keywords: ontology, ontology extension, materials design, topic model

TL;DR: We show preliminary results regarding extending the Materials Design Ontology using a phrase-based topic model.

Abstract:

Ontologies have been proposed as a means towards making data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and has recently attracted much interest in the materials science community. Ontologies for this domain are being developed and one such effort is the Materials Design Ontology.
However, to obtain good results when using ontologies in semantically-enabled applications, the ontologies need to be of high quality. One of the quality aspects is that the ontologies should be as complete as possible. In this paper we show preliminary results regarding extending the Materials Design Ontology using a phrase-based topic model.