Lexinfo Metadata Modeling Language

A Lexinfo Metadata Modeling Language is a metadata modeling language for the creation of lexicalized ontologies.

• See: OWL.

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References

2011

• (Cimiano et al., 2011) ⇒ Philipp Cimiano, Paul Buitelaar, John McCrae, and Michael Sintek. (2011). “LexInfo: A Declarative Model for the Lexicon-ontology Interface.” In: Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web Journal, 9(1). doi:10.1016/j.websem.2010.11.001

2009

• (Buitelaar et al., 2009) ⇒ Paul Buitelaar, Philipp Cimiano, Peter Haase, and Michael Sintek (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

• https://code.google.com/p/lexinfo/
  • LexInfo is a metamodel for ontology lexica called LexInfo. It has been formalized using the OWL language. We have developed an API (the LexInfo API) that allows to create, manage and serialize ontology lexica according to the LexInfo model.

    LexInfo is thus an attempt to capture in a declarative way (using an ontology) the relation between the way we talk about things and the way they are formalized in a given ontology. The benefit of such a representation are the following:

    • Ontology lexica can be published, reused and shared across applications, thus avoiding that every application has to specify the language-ontology interface again from scratch.
    • It allows to generate grammars for information extraction systems or a syntax-semantics interface from the ontology and the associated lexicon
  • Overall, LexInfo can thus provide support in all those tasks where text (language) needs to be connected to an ontology, such as:
    • Natural language interfaces to ontologies
    • Ontology-based information extraction
    • Ontology population
    • Ontology-driven web/text mining

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