Creating portals using light-weight ontologies: a transformational approach

Creating web-portals based on semantic representations is an active field of development these days. However, it is expensive to create high-quality semantic data, and it is difficult to create portals that satisfy a variety of user profiles. We propose a transformational method for building portals based on cheaper, light-weight ontologies. Our transformations use frequent ontological patterns to organise the content of portals supporting a variety of user needs and tasks. This paper presents the first results of experimenting with the method in an industrial scenario.