An Ontology-Based Approach for Knowledge Acquisition: An Example of Sustainable Supplier Selection Domain Corpus

Abstract

Selecting the right supplier is a critical decision in sustainable supply chain management. Sustainable supplier selection plays an important role in achieving a balance between the three pillars of a sustainable supply chain: economic, environmental, and social. One of the most crucial aspects of running a business in this regard is sustainable supplier selection, and, to this end, an accurate and reliable approach is required. Therefore, the main contribution of this paper is to propose and implement an ontology-based approach for knowledge acquisition from the text for a sustainable supplier selection domain. This approach is dedicated to acquiring complex relationships from texts and coding these in the form of rules. The expected outcome is to enrich the existing domain ontology by these rules to obtain higher relational expressiveness, make reasoning, and produce new knowledge.