Keywords

Multilingual barriers, Multilingual extraction ontologies, Linguistic grounding, Cross-language communication, Automated cross-linguistic-mapping construction

Abstract

In our global society, multilingual barriers sometimes prohibit and often discourage people from accessing a wider variety of goods and services. We propose multilingual extraction ontologies as an approach to resolving these issues. As envisioned, our ontologies provide a conceptual framework for a narrow domain of interest. Grounding narrow-domain ontologies linguistically enables them to map relevant utterances and text to meaningful concepts in the ontology. Our prior work includes leveraging large-scale lexicons and terminology resources for grounding and augmenting ontological content [12]. Linguistically grounding ontologies in multiple languages enables cross-language communication within the scope of the various ontologies’ domains. Technically, we can gauge the success of linguistically grounded ontologies by measuring precision and recall of extracted concepts, and we can gauge the success of automated cross-linguistic-mapping construction by measuring the speed of creation and the accuracy of generated lexical resources.

Original Publication Citation

Deryle W. Lonsdale, David W. Embley, and Stephen W. Liddle (2010). Ontologies for Multilingual Extraction. Proceedings of the World Wide Web (WWW) Conference’s 1stInternational Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web (MSW 2010), P. Buitelaar, P.Cimiano, and E. Montiel-Ponsoda (Eds.), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 571, pp. 1-4, ISSN1613-0073.

Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

2010

Publisher

World Wide Web

Language

English

College

Humanities

Department

Linguistics

University Standing at Time of Publication

Associate Professor

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