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| Title | EcoLexicon: An Environmental TKB |
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| Authors | Arianne Reimerink, Pilar León Araúz and Pedro J. Magaña Redondo |
| Abstract | EcoLexicon, a multilingual knowledge resource on the environment, provides aninternally coherent information system covering a wide range of specializedlinguistic and conceptual needs. Data in our terminological knowledge base(TKB) are primarily hosted in a relational database which is now linked to anontology in order to apply reasoning techniques and enhance user queries. Theadvantages of ontological reasoning can only be obtained if conceptualdescription is based on systematic criteria and a wide inventory ofnon-hierarchical relations, which confer dynamism to knowledge representation.Thus, our research has mainly focused on conceptual modelling and providing auser-friendly multimodal interface. The dynamic interface, which combinesconceptual (networks and definitions), linguistic (contexts, concordances) andgraphical information offers users the freedom to surf it according to theirneeds. Furthermore, dynamism is also present at the representational level.Contextual constraints have been applied to reconceptualise versatile conceptsthat cause a great deal of information overload. |
| Language | Ontologies |
| Topics | Knowledge Discovery/Representation, Lexicon, lexical database, Ontologies |
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EcoLexicon: An Environmental TKB |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{REIMERINK10.895, author = {Arianne Reimerink, Pilar León Araúz and Pedro J. Magaña Redondo}, title = {EcoLexicon: An Environmental TKB}, 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} } |