Ontology Construction from Knowledge Acquisition

This paper focuses on ontology construction as a foundation for knowledge representation. We present here the processes of knowledge acquisition, analysis, and representation using a conceptual modeling tool, the Inferential Modeling Technique (IMT), as a basis for ontology construction. To illustrate the knowledge modeling process, we apply IMT for knowledge analysis in the domain of petroleum remediation selection process. This paper demonstrates how the Inferential Modeling Technique facilitates the construction of a conceptual model for the domain, which is used as the basis for construction of an ontology.