Community Asset Ontology for Modeling Community Data using Information Extraction

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze some data-related challenges to building resilient and sustainable communities, particularly how to computationally model the social and economical dynamic that exists within a community. To that end, we propose the Community Asset Ontology (CAO) for a knowledge graph that can encapsulate community data as modeled in existing social science literature. We utilize existing information extraction paradigms to map natural language community data to CAO and evaluate the usefulness of such an ontology-based approach compared to a baseline open information extraction approach.