A Use Case for Controlled Languages as Interfaces to Semantic Web Applications

Although the Semantic web is steadily gaining in popularity, it remains a mystery to a large percentage of Internet users. This can be ed to the complexity of the technologies that form its core. Creating intuitive interfaces which completely abstract the technologies underneath, is one way to solve this problem. A contrasting approach is to ease the user into understanding the technologies. We propose a solution which anchors on using controlled languages as interfaces to semantic web applications. This paper describes one such approach for the domain of meeting minutes, status reports and other project specific documents. A controlled language is developed along with an ontology to handle semi-automatic knowledge extraction. The contributions of this paper include an ontology designed for the domain of meeting minutes and status reports, and a controlled language grammar tailored for the above domain to perform the semi-automatic knowledge acquisition and generate RDF triples. This ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Pradeep Dantuluri, Brian Davis, Siegfried Handschuh
• Keywords: Controlled Language, Education, LREC 2010, Semantic Web, Semi-automatic Knowledge