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Multilingual Issues in Ontology Creation: Examples from NeOn and Concept Server Projects. Margherita Sini IV Ecoterm Vienna, Austria 17-18 April 2007. Outline. Why and What Needs and Status Requirements for models for tools The AGROVOC/CS Workbench. Why. FAO data are multilingual
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Multilingual Issues in Ontology Creation: Examples from NeOn and Concept Server Projects Margherita Sini IV EcotermVienna, Austria 17-18 April 2007
Outline • Why and What • Needs and Status • Requirements • for models • for tools • The AGROVOC/CS Workbench
Why • FAO data are multilingual • To integrate data • To provide better services to users • semantically-based or concept-based searches • multilingual search assistants • text processing for document finger-printing • concept-based indexing • (semi-) automatic translation assistants • Each language is different in alphabet characteristic and structure
What • Multilingual resources (AGROVOC, FAOTERM, Glossaries, etc.) • Documents (at least 5 official languages) • Databases • statistical • others
Needs • Models • modularization • versioning • Tools • efficient management • worldwide • collaborative Use of semantic-oriented technologies
Status • One-to-One correspondence based on agreements and convention (e.g. names of countries and organizations) • Reference Table Management System (RTMS) • Data based on cultures and languages • AGROVOC • FAOTERM
Requirements for models • Concept, Term, String level • Concept and Terms correspondences • one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, one-to-nothing, many-to-nothing • Context • Relationships (culturally-driven) • Notations • e.g. comments, definitions, and images
Requirements for tools • UTF-8 and/or UTF-16 • Reference to ISO standard codes or legacy codes • Support left-to-right and right-to-left • Select one or more languages(for editing, export or visualization) • Easy add new languages • Functionalities to check and maintain the quality of the content
AGROVOC/CS Workbench • Support and manage the multi-language terminology work of information management specialists in the development, maintenance, and quality assurance of the AGROVOC/CS • A collaborative tool
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