CEVO: Comprehensive EVent Ontology Enhancing Cognitive Annotation on Relations

Saeedeh Shekarpour, Faisal Alshargi, Krishnaprasad Thirunaravan, Valerie L. Shalin, Amit Sheth

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Abstract

While the general analysis of named entities has received substantial research attention on unstructured as well as structured data, the analysis of relations among named entities has received limited focus. In fact, a review of the literature revealed a deficiency in research on the abstract conceptualization required to organize relations. We believe that such an abstract conceptualization can benefit various communities and applications such as natural language processing, information extraction, machine learning, and ontology engineering. In this paper, we present Comprehensive EVent Ontology (CEVO), built on Levin's conceptual hierarchy of English verbs that categorizes verbs with shared meaning, and syntactic behavior. We present the fundamental concepts and requirements for this ontology. Furthermore, we present three use cases employing the CEVO ontology on annotation tasks: (i) annotating relations in plain text, (ii) annotating ontological properties, and (iii) linking textual relations to ontological properties. These use-cases demonstrate the benefits of using CEVO for annotation: (i) annotating English verbs from an abstract conceptualization, (ii) playing the role of an upper ontology for organizing ontological properties, and (iii) facilitating the annotation of text relations using any underlying vocabulary. This resource is available at https:llshekarpour.github.io/cevo.io/ using https://w3id.org/cevonamespace.
Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publication2019 IEEE 13th International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC)
PublisherIEEE
Pages385-391
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-5386-6783-5
ISBN (Print)978-1-5386-6784-2
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 14 2019
Event13th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2019 - Newport Beach, United States
Duration: Jan 30 2019Feb 1 2019

Conference

Conference13th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNewport Beach
Period1/30/192/1/19

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software

Keywords

  • abstract ontology
  • cevo
  • cognitive annotation
  • event ontology
  • relation annotation

Disciplines

  • Computer Engineering
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering

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