DAFOE: a Platform for Building Ontologies from Texts

Although text-based ontology engineering gained much popularity in the last 10 years, very few ontology engineering platforms exploit the full potential of the connection between texts and ontologies. We propose DAFOE, a new platform for building ontologies with a terminological component using different types of linguistic entries (text corpora, results of natural language processing tools, terminologies or thesauri). DAFOE supports knowledge structuring and conceptual modelling from these linguistic entries as well as ontology formalization. DAFOE outputs models with two main original features: an ontology articulated with a lexical component and a connection with the text or linguistic entry that motivated their definition.