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Margherita Sini, FAO

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Multilingual Issues in Ontology Creation:

Examples from NeOn and Concept Server Projects

Margherita SiniIV Ecoterm

Vienna, Austria17-18 April 2007



Outline• Why and What

• Needs and Status

• Requirements– for models– for tools

• The AGROVOC/CS Workbench



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



What• Multilingual resources (AGROVOC,

FAOTERM, Glossaries, etc.)

• Documents (at least 5 official languages)

• Databases– statistical– others



Needs• Models

– modularization– versioning

• Tools– efficient management– worldwide– collaborative

Use of semantic-oriented technologies



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



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



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



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



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



Terminology section



Concept level



Add new concept



Term level



Term relationships



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