Abstract:

Ontology evolution is generally defined as the timely adaptation of an ontology to changing requirements and the consistent propagation of changes to dependent artifacts. In BOEMIE, a novel, pattern-driven methodology for multimedia ontology evolution is defined to control the bootstrapping process. The methodology uses the information extracted from the multimedia content in order to populate, enrich and coordinate the domain ontology and to provide the necessary semantic information back to the information extraction modules. This document describes the methodology for ontology evolution adopted in BOEMIE together with the associated open architecture.