Abstract
Regardless of the knowledge representation schema chosen to implement a linguistic resource, conceptual design is an important step in its development. However, it is normally put aside by developing efforts as they focus on content, implementation and time-saving issues rather than on the software engineering aspects of the construction of linguistic resources. Based on an analysis of common problems found in linguistic resources, we present a reusable conceptual model which incorporates elements that give ontology developers the possibility to establish formal semantic descriptions for concepts and relations, and thus avoiding the aforementioned common problems. The model represents a step forward in our efforts to define a complete methodology for the design and implementation of ontology-based linguistic resources using relational databases and a sound software engineering approach for knowledge representation.
The research described in this paper has been partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science and the European Union from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) – (TIN2005-08988-C02-01 and TIN2005-08988-C02-02).
An erratum to this chapter can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11914853_71.
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Vaquero, A., Sáenz, F., Alvarez, F., de Buenaga, M. (2006). Conceptual Design for Domain and Task Specific Ontology-Based Linguistic Resources. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE. OTM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4275. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11914853_52
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