Patent Document ID: 20130132442
Application ID: 13301345
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of constructing an ontology from data, the ontology comprising concepts and relationships between certain of those concepts, and the ontology having a defined structure, the method comprising: using the data, constructing, by one or more processors, a lexical graph, wherein: the lexical graph comprises a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges; each node of the lexical graph corresponds to one or more data terms; each edge of the lexical graph is a connection between two different nodes; and the lexical graph further comprises statistical information relating to the data terms; selecting, by the one or more processors, as the concepts of the ontology, nodes in the lexical graph that correspond to prominent data terms; grouping, by the one or more processors, into one or more groups, the concepts, each group comprising one or more concepts; based on the one or more groups and the statistical information, detecting, by the one or more processors, relationships between the concepts; and using a formal ontological specification, the concepts, and the relationships between those concepts, defining, by the one or more processors, the structure of the ontology.