Enriching an Ontology with Multilingual Information

Organizations working in a multilingual environment demand multilingual ontologies. To solve this problem we propose LabelTranslator, a system that automatically localizes ontologies. Ontology localization consists of adapting an ontology to a concrete language and cultural community. LabelTranslator takes as input an ontology whose labels are described in a source natural language and obtains the most probable translation into a target natural language of each ontology label. Our main contribution is the automatization of this process which reduces human efforts to localize an ontology manually. First, our system uses a translation service which obtains automatic translations of each ontology label (name of an ontology term) from/into English, German, or Spanish by consulting different linguistic resources such as lexical databases, bilingual dictionaries, and terminologies. Second, a ranking method is used to sort each ontology label according to similarity with its lexical and seman...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ESWS
• Authors: Mauricio Espinoza, Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Eduardo Mena
• Keywords: ESWS 2008, Internet Technology, Ontology, Ontology Label, Ontology Localization