%0 Journal Article %T An Ontology based Text Mining framework for R&D Project Selection %A N.Arunachalam %A E.Sathya %A S.Hismath Begum %A M . U m a M a k e s w ar i %J International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology %D 2013 %I Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC) %X Researchanddevelopment(R&D)projectselectionisandecision-making taskcommonlyfoundingovernment fundingagencies,universities,researchinstitutes,and technologyintensivecompanies.TextMininghasemergedasadefinitivetechniqueforextracting theunknowninformationfromlargetextdocument.Ontologyisaknowledgerepositoryinwhichconcepts andterms aredefined aswellasrelationshipsbetween theseconcepts.Ontology'smakethetaskofsearchingsimilarpatternof textthat tobemoreeffective,efficientandinteractive.Thecurrentmethod for groupingproposalsfor research projectselection is proposed using anontologybasedtextminingapproachtoclusterresearchproposalsbasedon theirsimilaritiesinresearcharea.Thismethodisefficient andeffectiveforclusteringresearchproposals.Howeverproposalassignmentregardingresearch areas toexpertscannotbeoftenaccurate.Thispaperpresents aframeworkonontologybasedtextminingtoclusterresearchproposals,externalreviewersbasedon theirresearchareaandtoassignconcernedresearchproposalstoreviewerssystematically.Aknowledgebasedagentisappendedtotheproposedsystem foraretrieval ofdatafromthesystem in an efficient way. %K C l u s t eri n g a n a l y s i s %K o n t o l o gy %K R & D %K t e x t m i n i n g %K and knowledge b a s e d ag e n t. %U http://airccse.org/journal/jcsit/5113ijcsit13.pdf