MSW 2010 Proceedings of the 1 st International Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web

In our global society, multilingual barriers sometimes prohibit and often discourage people from accessing a wider variety of goods and services. We propose multilingual extraction ontologies as an approach to resolving these issues. Our ontologies provide a conceptual framework for a narrow domain of interest. Grounding narrow-domain ontologies linguistically enables them to map relevant utterances and text to meaningful concepts in the ontology. Our prior work includes leveraging large-scale lexicons and terminology resources for grounding and augmenting ontological content [14]. Linguistically grounding ontologies in multiple languages enables cross-language communication within the scope of the various ontologies’ domains. We quantify the success of linguistically grounded ontologies by measuring precision and recall of extracted concepts, and we can gauge the success of automated cross-linguistic-mapping construction by measuring the speed of creation and the accuracy of generated lexical resources.