2009 TowardsLinguisticallyGroundedOntologies
- (Buitelaar et al., 2009) ⇒ Paul Buitelaar, Philipp Cimiano, Peter Haase, and Michael Sinte. (2009). “Towards Linguistically Grounded Ontologies.” In: Proceedings of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009). doi:10.1007/978-3-642-02121-3_12
Subject Headings: Linguistically Grounded Ontology.
Notes
- Related Technical Report http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/pci/lexinfo_tech_report_08.pdf
- It argues that ontologies need a linguistic grounding.
- It defines Linguistic Information to include: part-of-speech, morphological decomposition, subcategorization frames, etc.
- It defines ontology elements to include: concepts, relations, individuals, etc.
- It argues that RDFS or OWL are inadequate to support the encoding of linguistic information.
- It presents a new model to associate ontological representations with linguistic information.
- It uses the example of the German Compound Word “Schweineschnitzel” (pork cutlet) which can be represented in an Ontology as:
- an explicit Ontology Concept.
- a Composite Concept with two explicit Ontology Concepts "cutlet" made of "pork" and an Ontology Relation (e.g. Made Of).
- two explicit Ontology Concepts “cutlet” and “pork” but no Ontology Relation between them
- only one Ontology Concept, e.g. “cutlet”
Cited By
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Abstract
In this paper we argue why it is necessary to associate linguistic information with ontologies and why more expressive models, beyond RDFS, OWL and SKOS, are needed to capture the relation between natural language constructs on the one hand and ontological entities on the other. We argue that in the light of tasks such as ontology-based information extraction, ontology learning and population from text and natural language generation from ontologies, currently available datamodels are not sufficient as they only allow to associate atomic terms without linguistic grounding or structure to ontology elements. Towards realizing a more expressive model for associating linguistic information to ontology elements, we base our work presented here on previously developed models (LingInfo, LexOnto, LMF) and present a new joint model for linguistic grounding of ontologies called LingInfo. LexInfo combines essential design aspects of LingInfo and LexOnto and builds on a sound model for representing computational lexica called LMF which has been recently approved as a standard under ISO.
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| Author | volume | Date Value | title | type | journal | titleUrl | doi | note | year | |
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| 2009 TowardsLinguisticallyGroundedOntologies | Paul Buitelaar Philipp Cimiano Peter Haase Michael Sinte | Towards Linguistically Grounded Ontologies | Proceedings of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference | http://www.cimiano.de/Publications/2009/eswc09/eswc09.pdf | 10.1007/978-3-642-02121-3_12 | 2009 |