Ontology extraction from MongoDB using formal concept analysis

摘要

Using formal concept analysis, we propose a method for engineering ontology from MongoDB to effectively represent unstructured data. Our method consists of three main phases: (1) generating formal context from a MongoDB, (2) applying formal concept analysis to derive a concept lattice from that formal context, and (3) converting the obtained concept lattice to the first prototype of an ontology. We apply our method on NorthWind database and demonstrate how the proposed mapping rules can be used for learning an ontology from such database. At the end, we discuss about suggestions by which we can improve and generalize the method for more complex database examples.