As a PhD student and I was interested in combining the use of ontologies with existing techniques in text-mining and information extraction to improve indexing and retrieval of documents. The title of my thesis was 'Learning Ontologies by processing Natural Language Text'

Keys: ontologies,text mining,natural language processing,document management,indexing,knowledge management,knowledge representation,knowledge modelling,information extraction

Damle, D., Uren, V., DeRoeck, A. and Domingue, J. (2005) Identifying Important Words For Semi-automatically Building Ontologies From Natural Language Text, 2nd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-05), Pune, India

Damle, D. and Uren, V. (2005) Extracting significant words from corpora for ontology extraction (poster), International Conference on Knowledge Capture, KCAP 05, Banff, Canada