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Creating a “DOGMAtic” Multilingual Ontology Infrastructure to Support a Semantic Portal

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On The Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2003: OTM 2003 Workshops (OTM 2003)

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We present extensions to the current DOGMA ontology engineering framework so that the DOGMA ontology server is better equiped to cope with context and multilinguality, issues that are important when deploying “ontology technology” in a setting involving human users. An obvious example is a semantic portal that offers search facilities to its users. A short presentation of the DOGMA ontology engineering approach will be provided, before the extensions mentioned will be presented.

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  2. School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University, Bld 10.10, 376-392 Swanston Street, VIC 3001, Melbourne, Australia

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De Bo, J., Spyns, P., Meersman, R. (2003). Creating a “DOGMAtic” Multilingual Ontology Infrastructure to Support a Semantic Portal. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On The Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2003: OTM 2003 Workshops. OTM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2889. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39962-9_35

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