Ontologies provide a common understanding of a specific domain of interest that can be communicated between people and used as background knowledge for automated reasoning in a wide range of applications. In this paper we address the design of multilingual ontologies following well-defined knowledge engineering methodologies with the support of novel collaborative development approaches. In particular, we present a collaborative platform which allows ontologies to be developed incrementally in multiple languages. This is made possible via an appropriate mapping between language independent concepts and one lexicalization per language (or a lexical gap in case such lexicalization does not exist). The collaborative platform has been designed to support the development of the Universal Knowledge Core, a multilingual ontology currently in English, Italian, Chinese, Mongolian, Hindi and Bangladeshi. Its design follows a workflow-based development methodology that models resources as a set of collaborative objects and assigns customizable workflows to build and maintain each collaborative object in a community driven manner, with extensive support of modern web 2.0 social and collaborative features.
A Collaborative Platform for Multilingual Ontology Development / Tawfik, A.; Giunchiglia, Fausto; Maltese, Vincenzo. - (2014). ((Intervento presentato al convegno ICKEO conference 2014 tenutosi a Parigi nel 31 Dicembre 2014.
Titolo: | A Collaborative Platform for Multilingual Ontology Development |
Autori: | Tawfik, A.; Giunchiglia, Fausto; Maltese, Vincenzo |
Autori Unitn: | |
Titolo del volume contenente il saggio: | International Science Index |
Luogo di edizione: | unknown |
Casa editrice: | unknown |
Anno di pubblicazione: | 2014 |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11572/105698 |
Citazione: | A Collaborative Platform for Multilingual Ontology Development / Tawfik, A.; Giunchiglia, Fausto; Maltese, Vincenzo. - (2014). ((Intervento presentato al convegno ICKEO conference 2014 tenutosi a Parigi nel 31 Dicembre 2014. |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 04.1 Saggio in atti di convegno (Paper in proceedings) |