Keet, C. Maria and Chirema, Takunda (2016) A model for verbalising relations with roles in multiple languages, Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW'16), 21-23 Nov 2016, Bologna, Italy, 10024, 384-399, Springer.
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Abstract
Natural language renderings of ontologies facilitate communication with domain experts. While for ontologies with terms in English this is fairly straightforward, it is problematic for grammatically richer languages due to conjugation of verbs, an article that may be dependent on the preposition, or a preposition that modifies the noun. There is no systematic way to deal with such `complex' names of OWL object properties, or their verbalisation with existing language models for annotating ontologies. The modifications occur only when the object performs some {\em role} in a relation, so we propose a conceptual model that can handle this. This requires reconciling the standard view with relational expressions to a positionalist view, which is included in the model and in the formalisation of the mapping between the two. This eases verbalisation and it allows for a more precise representation of the knowledge, yet is still compatible with existing technologies. We have implemented it as a Prot\'eg\'e plugin and validated its adequacy with several languages that need it, such as German and isiZulu.
| Item Type: | Conference paper |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ontology engineering ontologies isiZulu language model |
| Subjects: | Computing methodologies > Artificial intelligence |
| Alternate Locations: | http://www.meteck.org/files/PropOWLzuluEKAW16.pdf, http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-49004-5_25 |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Dec 2016 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Oct 2019 15:32 |
| URI: | http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/1131 |
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