An Integrated ontology for classification of research publication in the domain of computer science

Abstract

Several academic degree programs have research component. As a first step in the research activity, Research scholar has to undertake literature survey, which enables them to understand the domain of their research and to identify the problem, which they would like to address. This literature survey maps to searching the web for published papers in different professional society like ACM, IEEE and by any related digital library of their domain of interest. These Professional Societies have knowledge base regarding research publication. The knowledge base uses ontology build by ontology expert of that domain, publically available to reuse. These ontologies suffer from the limitations of domain knowledge. We have proposed a novel scheme to map among different types of ontology build by different professional society using Metadata of research publication. To map ontology we use DDC (Dewey Decimal Code), a classification system, to fit different domain ontologies into one based on the metadata. The metadata play vital role to make ontology, which are obtained from research publications, has attributes Subject, Title, keyword, Author Name, and Affiliation etc. This Integrated ontology is generalization of world knowledge.