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Conceptual Framework of an Upper Ontology for Describing Linguistic Services

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Intercultural Collaboration (IWIC 2007)

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This paper presents a conceptual framework of an upper level ontology for describing linguistic web services. Such an ontology is urgently required to develop an efficient language infrastructure on which a tailored linguistic service can be realized by combining existing general linguistic services and/or recently developed community-based language resources. The ontology will serve as a semantic foundation for the descriptions of the technical components that are inevitably referred to in composite service composition. It will also facilitate the wrapper generation processes that are unavoidable when a linguistic service is incorporated into the language infrastructure. The proposed ontology states that processing resources that may utilize associated language resources, such as lexicons or corpora, are in themselves, a linguistic service. This paper also proposes a taxonomy of processing resources and static language resources and develops a sub-ontology for abstract linguistic objects, such as meaning, expression, and description.

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Hayashi, Y. (2007). Conceptual Framework of an Upper Ontology for Describing Linguistic Services. In: Ishida, T., Fussell, S.R., Vossen, P.T.J.M. (eds) Intercultural Collaboration. IWIC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4568. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74000-1_3

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