Book Reviews Ontology-Based Interpretation of Natural Language

A book aiming to build a bridge between two fields that share the subject of research but do not share the same views necessarily puts itself in a difficult position: The authors have either to strike a fair balance at peril of dissatisfying both sides or nail their colors to the mast and cater mainly to one of two communities. For semantic processing of natural language with either NLP methods or Semantic Web approaches, the authors clearly favor the latter and propose a strictly ontology-driven interpretation of natural language. The main contribution of the book, driving semantic processing from the ground up by a formal domain-specific ontology, is elaborated in ten well-structured chapters spanning 143 pages of content.