Enriching the Semantic Web with Linguistic Information - Tutorial at ESWC 2011

May 29 or 30, 2011, Heraklion, Greece (as part of the ESWC 2011)

Tutorial presented by the Monnet Project on Multilingual Ontologies for Networked Knowledge.

Organizers

• John McCrae (CITEC, Universität Bielefeld)
• Elena Montiel-Ponsoda (Ontology Engineering Group,  Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
• Tobias Wunner (Digital Enterprise Research Insititute, National University of Ireland, Galway)

Description

The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce, motivate and detail models for representing linguistic information relative to ontologies and linked data vocabularies with the aim of improving the quality and scope of applications that work with natural language. The continuing growth of ontologies for semantic modeling and the use terminological resources to ground these ontologies in human language has raised the issue of how to add linguistic information to ontologies and linked data vocabularies and to represent models of lexical and terminological information in a way which is compatible with Semantic Web standards.

While ontologies have proved useful for capturing knowledge, proposals for incorporating complex linguistic information into Semantic Web models and processing systems have emerged only recently. The tutorial will show current and new practices on how to represent and integrate linguistic knowledge into knowledge resources and their potential for enhancing NLP applications. We will present models for enriching semantic models with linguistic information by conforming to current practice in the fields of the Semantic Web, Computational Linguistics and Language Resources. It is targeted at researchers and practitioners interested in learning how to enrich ontologies with linguistic information in one or several natural languages and NLP tool developers interested in understanding how Semantic Web resources can be leveraged fro NLP. There will be two hands-on sessions in this tutorial.

Tutorial Outline

• Session 1: Current models and trends

Semantic Web data models and existing resources in NLP applications

• Session 2: Terminological Modelling

Overview and comparison of Semantic Web models for terminological modelling (SKOS, SKOS-XL, LIR, lemon core)

• Session 3: SKOS hands-on

A practical hands-on session where participants can create a SKOS terminology for a domain of their choice using Pool Party.

• Session 4: Ontology lexica with lemon

An introduction to the Semantic Web lemon model which adapts the ISO LMF standard. We will exemplify how lemon can model syntactic and morphological features and links them to a domain ontology.

• Session 5: lemon hands-on

A practical hands on session where participants can create a lemon model with linguistic features of their choice beyond SKOS for a domain ontology of their choice.

Notes for participants

As we shall be using web based software and desktop applications we require that participants bring a laptop in order to participate in the tutorial.

We would also encourage participants to supply their domain model, ideally in a Semantic Web format such as OWL or RDF, that can be used in the hands on sessions (eg finance domain GoodRelations or MyGrid in the bio domain).

Language models will be provided for English, German, Spanish and Dutch.

We will also provide handouts detailing the models we describe during the tutorial.

Registration for the tutorial is via the ESWC 2011 page: http://www.eswc2011.org/content/join-participant

Please email: jmccrae@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de, emontiel@delicias.dia.fi.upm.es or tobias.wunner@deri.org for more information