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LIDER MLODE Workshop Leipzig 2 September 2014Michael Wetzel, MD Coreon
Towards the Single Digital Market – Processing Knowledge, Independently from Language
02-09-2014 Towards the Single Digital Market – Processing Knowledge, Independent from Language @wetzelmichael
Language forces Knowledge Silos – Key Obstacle towards Single Digital Market
Carmanufacturer
Localhealthcare
Knowledge Remains in Silos
Operational Inefficiencies
Missed Opportunities
Frustrated Individuals
Syntax alone not Sufficient
Semantics Missing
Cross-language Missing
Not a Translation Problem
Huge Information Exchange
Uncurated Textsin Any Language
Databases Good in Numbers, Bad in Text
Free Flow of Goods and Services
Job Market Trade Healthcare …
02-09-2014 Towards the Single Digital Market – Processing Knowledge, Independent from Language @wetzelmichael
Huge Amount of Information
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Huge Amount of Information– in Myriads of Language Variants
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Aussenspiegel
Außenspiegel
AS
Rückblickspiegel
Aussenspiegel, linkslinker AS
door mirror
exterior mirror
wing mirror
left wing mirror
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String-Matchingmisses manyrelevant texts
String-driven Access to Knowledge Fails
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„ … toothpick …“
„toothpick“
02-09-2014 Towards the Single Digital Market – Processing Knowledge, Independent from Language @wetzelmichael
Meaning Driven Approaches Find all Relevant Information
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Better:Searching for the ‚thing‘ finds all interesting texts
toothpick
dental flossZahnseide
Zahnstocher
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Solution: Multilingual Knowledge System
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Inventory of Linked Multilingual Concepts
Fusion of Taxonomy / Ontology Graph with Multilingual
Terminology
One System, One View, All Languages:Concepts, Relations, Terms
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Direct relations
Concept metadata
Terms andsynonyms
Extensive termdescriptors
Location in knowledge map
Alphabetic, multilingual list
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Leverage Existing Assets for Your MKS
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Multilingual Knowledge System
Multilingual Terminology List Knowledge Map
Structure semantically
Cover Languages, Variants, Registers
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Rolling out an MKS
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Interoperability, cross-border
Search
Knowledge visualization
02-09-2014 Towards the Single Digital Market – Processing Knowledge, Independent from Language @wetzelmichael
Challenges
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• By its nature designed for linking• How about access rights
management?
MKS is infrastructure
• Different standards (TBX – SKOS / OWL – LEMON)
• Different communities
Two worlds mean
inefficiency
• Not a translation problem• An opportunity to access
knowledge “extra muros”
Evangelization required
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Summary
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Knowledge is expressed in a variety of formats, in
different language registers, and multilingual
MKS is a fusion of taxonomy with terminology to facilitate
semantic processing of knowledge
Turn EU’s multilingualism into an advantage
Michael Wetzel
c +49 173 357 58 68
s mlwetzel
t @wetzelmichael
l Berlin-Mitte
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