Minerando Mapa Conceitual a partir de Texto em Português

Abstract

Concept maps are graphical tools for representation and construction of knowledge. The manual construction of a concept map requires time and cognitive effort, this being increased when the map should not represent the cognitive structure of the author, but rather, the information expressed in a text written by another author. Therefore, we propose a computational approach for concept map mining from texts in Portuguese that aims to represent the text in summary form through concepts and relationships. To this end, we define a technological architecture that includes the services of: (i) text formatting, removing characters and designing of the text; (ii) domain identification, information retrieval techniques to identify the domain to which refers the text; (iii) elements extractor, natural language processing techniques on the text to extract concept-relation-concept propositions; (iv) element summarizer, supported by graph analysis to identify the relevant concepts on the map; and (v) map visualization, presentation of the propositions in graphic form. The approach developed presents satisfactory results and contributes exceptionally to the summarization of texts to identify the relevant concepts of the text while maintaining its several and most important characteristics. Furthermore, this research introduces the specification of a project to provide computational resources for processing, handling and extraction of conceptual maps.