23.1586, FYI: Open Call for Use Cases for Ontology-Lexicon Model

Thu Mar 29 14:42:40 UTC 2012

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Subject: 23.1586, FYI: Open Call for Use Cases for Ontology-Lexicon Model

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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:42:32
From: Philipp Cimiano [cimiano at cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de]
Subject: Open Call for Use Cases for Ontology-Lexicon Model

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The W3C Community Group on Ontology Lexica started work in 
December 2011

http://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/

Motivation

Ontologies have numerous applications and they represent the 
conceptual backbone of the Semantic Web. In fact, significant work has 
gone into standardization efforts under the auspices of the W3C to 
produce recommendations for data and knowledge representation 
languages, i.e. the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the 
Web Ontology Language (OWL). However, current web-based 
knowledge representation languages such as OWL and RDF(S) lack 
the rich linguistic grounding that is required for language-mediated 
access to ontologies. OWL and RDF(S) rely on a property rdfs:label to 
capture the relation between a vocabulary element and its (preferred) 
lexicalization in a given language. This lexicalization provides some 
kind of lexical anchor that makes the concept, property, individual etc. 
understandable to a user. The mechanisms for linguistic grounding 
available in OWL and RDF(S) are thus far from being able to capture 
the necessary linguistic and lexical information that NLP applications 
working with a particular ontology need. The mission of the Ontology-
Lexicon community group is to develop a model for the linguistic 
grounding of ontologies which allows to represent lexical entries 
containing information about how ontology elements (classes, 
properties, individuals etc.) are realized in multiple languages. A more 
detailed overview of the scope and goal of the working group can be 
found at [3].

Open Call for Use Cases

With this call for use cases, we intend to expand the scope of our 
current use cases (see [2]) by including use cases that are inspired by 
concrete, real-life applications. We thus call for participation of 
industrial stakeholders and application developers in the Community 
Group by providing a description of a use case using the template 
found below. By this, we offer interested parties the opportunity to 
participate in standardization activities that are relevant and potentially 
beneficial for their application development, and contribute their ideas 
to the process of creating a standard for the representation of ontology 
related lexicons.

Please send use case descriptions to Philipp Cimiano (cimiano at cit-
ec.uni-bielefeld.de) until May 3rd. Any questions or comments can be 
addressed to Philipp Cimiano at the same email address.

Participation in the Group

People interested in the group's activities, discussion and 
teleconferences are welcome to join the group at [1].

[1]
http://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/

[2]
http://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/wiki/Specification_of_Use_Cases

[3]
http://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/wiki/Goals_and_Scope_of_Ontolo
gy-Lexica_Community_Group

Template

I. Motivation

This should contain a short motivation of the use case, including a 
description of the application context and why it is relevant to specify 
the meaning of words with respect to a given ontology in the context of 
the application.

II. Description of the use case

This section should describe the use case in more detail, specifying 
what the ontology-lexicon interface would need to look like from the 
point of view of the application and how the ontology-lexicon interface 
is exploited in the context of the given application. If available, the 
ontology for the application should be briefly described.

III. Limitations of existing models

This section should discuss existing models and their limitations with 
respect to the needs of the application in question.

IV. Example

This section should provide a concrete example illustrating what kind of 
knowledge should be stated in the ontology-lexicon interface from the 
point of view of the application and how it would be exploited by the 
application.

V. Requirements

This section is optional and might already advance concrete 
requirements on the ontology-lexicon model. 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Lexicography

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