An Interconnection Method for Heterogeneous Knowledge Bases by Utilizing Wikipedia

Abstract

This paper presents an interconnection method for heterogeneous knowledge bases by utilizing relation information extracted from Wikipedia. Recently, the number of users who employ search engines for not only retrieving Web pages but also understanding or learning an arbitrary concept has been increasing. It is difficult to understand and learn an arbitrary concept by using most of the current search engines. To understand or learn an arbitrary concept thoroughly, it is necessary to easily determine the various relationships between the heterogeneous knowledge bases. We consider one of the method for interconnection of knowledge bases on heterogeneous fields is using Wikipedia resources.