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Context and Terminology in the Multilingual Semantic Web

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One of the main challenges of the Multilingual Semantic Web (MSW) is ontology localization. This first needs a representation framework that allows for the inclusion of different syntactic, lexical, conceptual and semantic features, but it also needs to account for dynamism and context from both a monolingual and multilingual perspective. We understand dynamism as the changing nature of both concepts and terms due to contextual constraints, whereas context is defined by the different pragmatic factors that modulate such dynamism (e.g. specialized domains, cultures, communicative situations). Context is thus an important construct when describing the concepts and terms of any domain in monolingual resources. However, in multilingual resources, context also affects interlingual correspondences. When dealing with multilingual ontologies, context features must be extended to include translation relations and degrees of equivalence.

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    In order to differentiate terms and concepts, we use small capitals for concepts and italics for terms.

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    http://ecolexicon.ugr.es.

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This research has been funded by project FFI2011-22397, from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

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    Pilar León-Araúz & Pamela Faber

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León-Araúz, P., Faber, P. (2014). Context and Terminology in the Multilingual Semantic Web. In: Buitelaar, P., Cimiano, P. (eds) Towards the Multilingual Semantic Web. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43585-4_3

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