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Margherita Sini, FAO
http://www.fao.org/aims/
Multilingual Issues in Ontology Creation:
Examples from NeOn and Concept Server Projects
Margherita SiniIV Ecoterm
Vienna, Austria17-18 April 2007
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Outline• Why and What
• Needs and Status
• Requirements– for models– for tools
• The AGROVOC/CS Workbench
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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
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What• Multilingual resources (AGROVOC,
FAOTERM, Glossaries, etc.)
• Documents (at least 5 official languages)
• Databases– statistical– others
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Needs• Models
– modularization– versioning
• Tools– efficient management– worldwide– collaborative
Use of semantic-oriented technologies
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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
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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
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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
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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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DEMO
http://chopin.cpe.ku.ac.th:8085/aoscsMain/Main.html
http://chopin.cpe.ku.ac.th:8085/aoscsMain/MainMenus.html
http://chopin.cpe.ku.ac.th:8085/aoscs/concept.html
http://chopin.cpe.ku.ac.th:8085/aoscsMain/MainMenus.html
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Terminology section
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Concept level
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Add new concept
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Term level
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Term relationships
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Margherita Sini
Caterina CaraccioloThank you!
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