Ontology-based Population and Enrichment of Researcher Profiles

. The representation, management, and exploitation of researcher profiles is an important task that every research institution must achieve. In this paper, we investigate on the use of ontologies as the main solution approach to support the representation of researcher profiles in a given academic environment. We describe the ontology model design, the automatic ontology population processes, and the discovery and enrichment processes of interesting semantic relations between researcher profiles. The functional competency of the enriched ontology is evaluated utilizing a set of inference rules and queries.