An Ontology for Language Service Composability

International Journal of Human-computer Studies / International Journal of Man-machine Studies, 1997

Reusable ontologies are becoming increasingly important for tasks such as information integration, knowledge-level interoperation, and knowledgebase development. We have developed a set of tools and services to support the process of achieving consensus on common shared ontologies by geographically distributed groups. These tools make use of the worldwide web to enable wide access and provide users with the ability to publish, browse, create, and edit ontologies stored on an ontology server. Users can quickly assemble a new ontology from a library of modules. We discuss how our system was constructed, how it exploits existing protocols and browsing tools, and our experience supporting hundreds of users. We describe applications using our tools to achieve consensus on ontologies and to integrate information.

1997

Reusable ontologies are becoming increasingly important for tasks such as information integration, knowledge-level interoperation, and knowledgebase development. We have developed a set of tools and services to support the process of achieving consensus on common shared ontologies by geographically distributed groups. These tools make use of the worldwide web to enable wide access and provide users with the ability to publish, browse, create, and edit ontologies stored on an ontology server. Users can quickly assemble a new ontology from a library of modules. We discuss how our system was constructed, how it exploits existing protocols and browsing tools, and our experience supporting hundreds of users. We describe applications using our tools to achieve consensus on ontologies and to integrate information. The Ontolingua Server may be accessed through the URL

Studies in Computational Intelligence, 2010

The multilingual aspects which characterize the (Semantic) Web and the constant demand for more understandable and easy-to-share forms of knowledge representation, push for a more "linguistically aware" approach to ontology development and foresees an environment where formal semantics could coexist with natural language, contributing to improve "shareability" of the content they describe. As a consequence ontologies should be enriched to both cover formally expressed conceptual knowledge as well as to expose content in a linguistically motivated fashion. In this paper we present a suite of tools, libraries and ontologies, ranging from ontology development to language resources access and management, supporting the development of multilingual ontologies. The contribution of this work, going beyond mere tool presentation, is two-fold: the presented tools implicitly embody a new way (methodology?) of rethinking the development of ontologies in terms of making their content easy reusable and comprehensible; moreover, they represent living proofs of software engineering principles associated to software reuse, documentation, modularity, interaction analysis, applied to the domain of Knowledge Management Software (e.g. the WGS84 Geo Positioning RDF vocabulary 1 , which contains only a few properties for describing latitude, longitude and point-in-space concepts), for larger domain descriptions, requiring different levels of abstraction and different perspectives depending on local needs, we expect to see several, different ontologies arise from independent organizations, often addressing overlapping domains.

panacea-lr.eu

In this paper we present a Web Service Architecture for managing high level interoperability of Language Resources (LRs) by means of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and the use of ISO standards, such as ISO LMF.

2020

This document provides a survey over vocabularies for language resources and services and sketch necessary extensions and the expected contribution of the Prêt-à-LLOD project to their further development for phenomena currently not sufficiently covered. Future updates with respect to this will be documented within Task 5.4.<br> <br> We focus on three main aspects of linguistically analyzed data<br> 1. lexical-conceptual resources, i.e., repositories of terminology, lexical data, translation, and semantics,<br> 2. linguistically annotated data, concerning linguistic analysis of textual or transcribed data, and<br> 3. language resource terminology, i.e., linguistic data categories and metadata<br> <br> For these areas, we describe representative vocabularies from the Linguistic Linked Open Data community (RDF-based vocabularies) as well as other approaches (e.g., ISO TC37 standards), we identify a number of gaps, and we describe ongoing effort...

2010

As the number of language resources accessible on the Internet increases, many efforts have been made for combining language resources and language processing tools to create new services. However, existing language resource coordination frameworks cannot manage issues of intellectual property associated with language resources, which make it difficult for most end-users to get supports for their intercultural collaborations because they always have to deal with the issues by themselves. In this paper, we aim at constructing a new language service management architecture on the Language Grid, which enables language resource providers to control access to their resources in accordance with their own policies. Furthermore, we apply the proposed architecture to the operating Language Grid in order to validate the effectiveness of the architecture. As a result, several service management models utilizing the monitoring and access constraints are occurring to satisfy various requirements...