Supporting ontology-driven document enrichment within communities of practice

Domingue, John and Motta, Enrico and Buckingham Shum, Simon and Vargas-vera, Maria and Kalfoglou, Yannis (2001) Supporting ontology-driven document enrichment within communities of practice. In Proceedings 1st International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-Cap 2001), Victoria, BC, Canada.

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Formative work by Lave and Wenger has articulated how practices emerge through the interplay of informal processes with symbolic codifications and artifacts. In this paper, we describe how ontologies can serve as symbolic tools within a community of practice supporting communication and knowledge sharing. We show that when a community's perspective on an issue is stable, it opens the possibility for introducing knowledge services, based on an ontology co-constructed by knowledge engineers with stakeholders. Using a case study we describe our approach, ontology-driven document enrichment, looking at how ontology construction and population can be supported by Web based technologies

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