This paper offers a preliminary study of how knowledge may be represented differently in different languages. In particular, we account for the contrast between English and Chinese when identical target domain knowledge is represented with two different, yet related, source domains in each language. We incorporate corpora analysis in English and Chinese with SUMO to delimit the source domains i...

This article presents the SUMO Browser—online tool that can be used for browsing the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology, SUMO, and its connection to the WordNet lexicon. The Browser facilitates the process of getting familiar with SUMO content. A brief introduction into SUMO and WordNet is also presented.

Recent development in wireless technology enables communication between vehicles. The concept of cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC)–which uses wireless communication between vehicles–aims at string stable behavior in a platoon of vehicles. “String stability” means any non-zero position, speed, and acceleration errors of an individual vehicle in a string do not amplify when they propagat...

This paper presents a semantic-driven methodology for the automatic acquisition of verbal models. Our approach relies strongly on the semantic generalizations allowed by already existing resources (e.g. Domain labels, Named Entity categories, concepts in the SUMO ontology, etc). Several experiments have been carried out using comparable corpora in four languages (Italian, Spanish, Basque and En...

This paper presents a general methodology to mapping EuroWordNets (Vossen, 1998) to the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO; (Niles and Pease, 2001)), and we show its application to the French EuroWordNet. The process makes use of existing work on mapping Princeton WordNet (Fellbaum, 1998) to SUMO (Niles and Pease, 2003). After a general discussion of the usefulness of our approach, we provid...

This paper presents the Event and Situation Ontology (ESO), a resource which formalizes the pre and post conditions of events and the roles of the entities affected by an event. The ontology reuses and maps across existing resources such as Wordnet, SUMO and Framenet and is designed for extracting information from text that otherwise would have been implicit. We present the metamodel of the ont...