Ontology-based Semantic Annotation of Product Catalogues

This paper describes a methodology for the semantic annotation of product catalogues. We propose a hybrid approach, combining pattern matching techniques to exploit the regular structure of product descriptions in catalogues, and Natural Language Processing techniques which are resorted to analyze natural language descriptions. It also includes the access to an application ontology, semi-automatically bootstrapped from collections of catalogues with an ontology learning tool, which is used to drive the semantic annotation process.