Device and method for automatically generating ontology from term definitions contained in a dictionary

摘要

A device (D), intended for automatically generating ontologies, comprises an analysis means (AM) arranged, each time that is received a term for which an ontology must be generated, i) for accessing a dictionary (DC) to determine a definition of this received term, then ii) for extracting pertinent terms from this determined definition, then iii) for accessing the dictionary (DC) to determine the definition of each of the extracted pertinent terms, then iv) for building, for each of the determined definitions of the received term and extracted pertinent terms, at least one logical clause expressing a relationship between pairs of pertinent terms it contains, these built logical clauses defining the ontology of the received term.