Ontologia do futebol: alternativa para a representação e a recuperação de informações no ciberespaço

Abstract

The Contemporary Society brought changes that affects all independently if individuaIs or organizations. Amongst those changes are the Internet, web systems and the ontology. Ontology is an original concept of Philosophy. However it carne into evidence in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science and more recently, in the Information Sciences particularly after the sprouting of web system semantics, which aims to semantically organize the information towards the recuperation of cyberspace. In these fields, it appears as new a proposal of knowledge representation to standardize the terrninology of a specific domain represented in a hierarchic structure of concepts or taxonomy, allowing the register of this knowledge and the access to the organized information. She presents the resuIts of a research in the context of the field soccer, seeking the construction of an ontology as alternative for the representation and recovery of information about this sporting activity in the cyberspace. With other words, it is about an exploratory research whose basic objective is to study the terrninology in the context of the filed of soccer, from speciaIized literature aiming at the construction of an ontology of domain. For the collection of data, an interview with soccer speciaIists who develop its activities next to the mass media in the city of Fortaleza was carried through. Also, meetings had been carried through information, with soccer fans so that information on soccer terminology was collected in natural language. The results show that the ontology can help people to better understand a determined knowledge area, thus making possible a certain consensus in its agreement on this area without the necessity to always appeal to a specialist or bibliographical sources on the subject. It also offers to exchange and reutilize information between software agents and peopIe, defining formal relations between the terms in order to describe a domain that can be used in a knowledge base.