%0 Journal Article %T Meta-DM: An ontology for the data mining domain %A YOKOME %A E. A. %A ARANTES %A F. L. %J Salesian Journal on Information Systems %D 2011 %I Faculdade Salesiana Maria Auxiliadora %X Ontologies have been used in various research areas from computer science, including data mining. This article describes the development of a domain ontology for data mining. Meta-DM ontology provides a common terminology that can be shared and processed by data mining tools. The ontology also indicates the KDD phases where human knowledge is necessary - this is its greatest differential. With ontologies as the Meta-DM, it is possible to add semantics in the data mining process in order to improve the interaction and cooperation between experts and mining systems. %K domain ontology %K data mining %K knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) %U http://www.fsma.edu.br/si/edicao8/Download_FSMA_SI_2011_2_Principal_5_en.html