Scientific Reports (May 2024)

Research on domain ontology construction based on the content features of online rumors

  • Jianbo Zhao,
  • Huailiang Liu,
  • Weili Zhang,
  • Tong Sun,
  • Qiuyi Chen,
  • Yuehai Wang,
  • Jiale Cheng,
  • Yan Zhuang,
  • Xiaojin Zhang,
  • Shanzhuang Zhang,
  • Bowei Li,
  • Ruiyu Ding

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-62459-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 21

Abstract

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Abstract Online rumors are widespread and difficult to identify, which bring serious harm to society and individuals. To effectively detect and govern online rumors, it is necessary to conduct in-depth semantic analysis and understand the content features of rumors. This paper proposes a TFI domain ontology construction method, which aims to achieve semantic parsing and reasoning of the rumor text content. This paper starts from the term layer, the frame layer, and the instance layer, and based on the reuse of the top-level ontology, the extraction of core literature content features, and the discovery of new concepts in the real corpus, obtains the core classes (five parent classes and 88 subclasses) of the rumor domain ontology and defines their concept hierarchy. Object properties and data properties are designed to describe relationships between entities or their features, and the instance layer is created according to the real rumor datasets. OWL language is used to encode the ontology, Protégé is used to visualize it, and SWRL rules and pellet reasoner are used to mine and verify implicit knowledge of the ontology, and judge the category of rumor text. This paper constructs a rumor domain ontology with high consistency and reliability.

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