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Enriching an ontology with multilingual information

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Mauricio Espinoza,

Asunción Gómez-Pérez,

Eduardo MenaAuthors Info & Claims

ESWC'08: Proceedings of the 5th European semantic web conference on The semantic web: research and applications

Pages 333 - 347

Published: 01 June 2008 Publication History

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Organizations working in amultilingual environment demand multilingual ontologies. To solve this problem we propose LabelTranslator, a system that automatically localizes ontologies. Ontology localization consists of adapting an ontology to a concrete language and cultural community.

LabelTranslator takes as input an ontology whose labels are described in a source natural language and obtains the most probable translation into a target natural language of each ontology label. Our main contribution is the automatization of this process which reduces human efforts to localize an ontology manually. First, our system uses a translation service which obtains automatic translations of each ontology label (name of an ontology term) from/into English, German, or Spanish by consulting different linguistic resources such as lexical databases, bilingual dictionaries, and terminologies. Second, a ranking method is used to sort each ontology label according to similarity with its lexical and semantic context.

The experiments performed in order to evaluate the quality of translation show that our approach is a good approximation to automatically enrich an ontology with multilingual information.

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Enriching an ontology with multilingual information
1. Computing methodologies
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    1. Natural language processing
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