Keet, C. Maria (2017) Representing and aligning similar relations: parts and wholes in isiZulu vs English, Proceedings of Language, Data, and Knowledge 2017 (LDK'17), 19-20 June, 2017, Galway, Ireland, 10318, 58-73, Springer.
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Abstract
Ontology-enabled medical information systems are used in Sub-Saharan Africa, which require localisation of Semantic Web technologies, such as ontology verbalisation, yet keeping a link with the English language-based systems. In realising this, we zoom in on the part-whole relations that are ubiquitous in medical ontologies, and the isiZulu language. The analysis of part-whole relations in isiZulu revealed both `underspecification'---therewith also challenging the transitivity claim---and three refinements cf. the list of common part-whole relations. This was first implemented for the monolingual scenario so that it generates structured natural language from an ontology in isiZulu. Two new natural language-independent correspondence patterns are proposed to solve non-1:1 object property alignments, which are subsequently used to align the part-whole taxonomies informed by the two languages.
| Item Type: | Conference paper |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ontology engineering, modeling, part-whole relations |
| Subjects: | Computing methodologies > Artificial intelligence |
| Alternate Locations: | http://www.meteck.org/files/ZUpartsOntoLDK17.pdf, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-59888-8_5 |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jan 2018 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Oct 2019 15:31 |
| URI: | http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/1239 |
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