Using natural language patterns for the development of ontologies

Abstract

The combination of certain linguistic units that recurrently appear in text genres has attracted the attention of many researchers in several domains, as they can provide valuable information about different types of relations. In this paper, the focus will be on some of these combinatory units, referred to as Lexico-Syntactic Patterns (LSPs) that provide information about conceptual relations. The aim of this research is to detect recurrent patterns that express some of the most common conceptual relations present in ontologies. The purpose of this paper is to present the different strategies we have followed to identify LSPs which correspond to some of the main ontological relations, as well as an excerpt of the repository of LSPs that is currently being built.