A Survey of Multilingual OWL Ontologies in BioPortal

Gillis-Webber, Frances and Keet, C. Maria (2022) A Survey of Multilingual OWL Ontologies in BioPortal, Proceedings of 13th International SWAT4HCLS Conference, 10-13 January 2022, Online.

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Abstract

The internationalisation goal for OWL sought to offer support for multilingual ontologies. User-displayable labels were suggested as a way to realise this, by means of rdfs:label. However, because each label is a language-tagged string, this hampers accurate representation of strings in languages that require grammatical features such as inflected forms and gender. At least eight linguistic models have been proposed to address this key shortcoming, with OntoLex-Lemon now the de facto standard. The purpose of this survey was to determine if there has been any adoption of linguistic models within OWL ontologies. As OWL ontologies are widely used in the biomedical domain, the survey was limited to those ontologies in NCBO BioPortal, a biomedical repository. The results indicate that OntoLex-Lemon was not used in any production OWL ontology at time of review, nor that of any other linguistic model. In addition, the adoption rate of multilingualism in OWL ontologies in BioPortal was observed to be 5%, with English the primary language, followed by French and German.

Item Type:	Conference paper
Uncontrolled Keywords:	OWL ontologies, linguistic model, multilingualism
Subjects:	Computing methodologies > Artificial intelligence > Knowledge representation and reasoning Computing methodologies > Artificial intelligence > Knowledge representation and reasoning > Ontology engineering
Date Deposited:	13 Jan 2022 08:49
Last Modified:	13 Jan 2022 08:49
URI:	https://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/1525

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