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| Title | Base Concepts in the African Languages Compared to Upper Ontologies and the WordNet Top Ontology |
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| Authors | Winston Anderson, Laurette Pretorius and Albert Kotzé |
| Abstract | Ontologies, and in particular upper ontologies, are foundational tothe establishment of the Semantic Web. Upper ontologies are used as equivalenceformalisms between domain specific ontologies. Multilingualism brings one ofthekey challenges to the development of these ontologies. Fundamental to thechallenges of defining upper ontologies is the assumption that concepts areuniversally shared. The approach to developing linguistic ontologies aligned toupper ontologies, particularly in the non-Indo-European language families, hashighlighted these challenges. Previously two approaches to developing newlinguistic ontologies and the influence of these approaches on the upperontologies have been well documented. These approaches are examined in a uniquenew context: the African, and in particular, the Bantu languages. Inparticular, we address the following twoquestions: Which approach is better for the alignment of the African languagesto upper ontologies? Can the concepts that are linguistically shared amongsttheAfrican languages be aligned easily with upper ontology concepts claimed to beuniversally shared? |
| Language | Ontologies |
| Topics | Multilinguality, Lexicon, lexical database, Ontologies |
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Base Concepts in the African Languages Compared to Upper Ontologies and the WordNet Top Ontology |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{ANDERSON10.247, author = {Winston Anderson, Laurette Pretorius and Albert Kotzé}, title = {Base Concepts in the African Languages Compared to Upper Ontologies and the WordNet Top Ontology}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |