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Cross-Lingual Evaluation of Ontologies with Rudify

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Rudify is a set of tools used for automatically annotating concepts in an ontology with the ontological meta-properties employed by OntoClean [1]. While OntoClean provides a methodology for evaluating ontological hierarchies based on ontological meta-properties of the concepts in the hierarchy, it does not provide a method for determining the meta-properties of a given concept within an ontology. Rudify has been developed to help bridge this gap, and has been used in the KYOTO project to facilitate ontology development. The general idea behind Rudify is the assumption that a preferred set of linguistic expressions is used when talking about ontological meta-properties. Thus, one can deduce a concept’s meta-properties from the usage of the concept’s lexical representation (LR) in natural language. This paper describes the theory behind Rudify, the development of Rudify, and evaluates Rudify’s output for the rigidity of base concepts in English, Dutch, and Spanish. Our overall conclusion is that the decisive output for English is useable data, while the procedure currently exploited by Rudify does not easily carry over to Spanish and Dutch.

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  1. University at Buffalo, 135 Park Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14260, U.S.A.

    Amanda Hicks

  2. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Jägerstr. 22/23, 10117, Berlin, Germany

    Axel Herold

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  1. IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Av.Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001, Lisbon, Portugal

    Ana Fred

  2. Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 4, 2628, Delft, CD, The Netherlands

    Jan L. G. Dietz

  3. Informatics Research Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading, RG6 6UD, Reading, UK

    Kecheng Liu

  4. Departament of Systems and Informatics, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal – INSTICC, Rua do Vale de Chaves - Estefanilha, 2910-761, Setúbal, Portugal

    Joaquim Filipe

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Hicks, A., Herold, A. (2011). Cross-Lingual Evaluation of Ontologies with Rudify. In: Fred, A., Dietz, J.L.G., Liu, K., Filipe, J. (eds) Knowledge Discovery, Knowlege Engineering and Knowledge Management. IC3K 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 128. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19032-2_11

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