Putative ontology generating method and apparatus
AssigneeSemantic Technologies Pty Ltd
InventorsAlbert Donald Tonkin, Dung Xuan Thi Le
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
Apparatus for generating a putative ontology from a data structure associated with a data store, the apparatus including an electronic processing device that generates a putative ontology by determining at least one concept table in the data structure, determining at least one validated attribute within the at least one concept table, determining at least one selected attribute value from the at least one validated attribute and generating at least one ontology class using the at least one attribute value.
Claims11
Apparatus for generating a putative ontology from a data structure associated with a source data store, the apparatus including an electronic processing device that generates a putative ontology by:
- a. creating a normalised schema from the data structure associated with the source data store;
- b. identifying instances of denormalised data in the normalised schema which had been metadata denormalised in the data structure;
- c. determining whether the denormalised data defines an object relationship between rows in the metadata denormalised in the data structure;
- d. identifying at an ontology object property from the object relationship;
- e. determining whether the denormalised data defines a concept in the rows of denormalised metadata in the data structure;
- f. identifying at least one ontology class from denormalised metadata;
- g. creating at least one second ontology class from at least one of the normalised schema classes which was not created by metadata denormalisation;
- h. creating at least one ontology object property from a relationship identified in the normalised schema;
- and i. creating at least one ontology data property from an attribute of each entity on the normalised scheme.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.