Learning OWL ontologies from free texts

Ontology based approach has been popularized by current semantic Web researches. However, ontology building by hand has proven to be a very hard and error-prone task and become the bottleneck of ontology acquiring process. WordNet, an electronic lexical database, is considered to be the most important resource available to researchers in computational linguistics. The paper proposes an ontology learning approach, which uses WordNet lexicon resources to build a standard OWL ontology model. The approach can the automation of ontology building and be very useful in ontology-based applications.