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Companies use company-specific terminology that may differ from the terminology used in existing corporate ontologies (e.g. Tove) and therefore need their own ontology. However, the current ontology engineering techniques are time-consuming and there exists a conceptual mismatch among developers and users. In contrast, folksonomies or the flat bottom-up taxonomies constituted by web users’ tags are rapidly created. In this paper, we present an approach that cost-efficiently derives a lightweight corporate ontology from a corporate folksonomy. We tested it on the folksonomy of a European company and first results are promising: it shows that it creates additional value to the company.
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Van Damme, C., Coenen, T., Vandijck, E. (2008). Turning a Corporate Folksonomy into a Lightweight Corporate Ontology. In: Abramowicz, W., Fensel, D. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79396-0_4
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