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Ontology learning

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TL;DR. Automatically extracting and structuring knowledge, concepts, and relationships from text.

Technical Definition

Automatically extracting and structuring knowledge, concepts, and relationships from text.

How it works

Ontology learning, also known as ontology extraction, is the process of automatically or semi-automatically building ontologies. This involves identifying terms, defining relationships between concepts, and encoding this knowledge from natural language text for efficient retrieval and reasoning.

Related Concepts

  • Natural language processing (NLP) — A field of AI enabling computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language.
  • Knowledge Graph — A structured representation of knowledge as a network of entities and their relationships.

Further Reading

  • Wikipedia — Glossary of AI