tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "A Linguistic Service Ontology for Language Infrastructures"

This paper introduces conceptual framework of an ontology for describing linguistic services on network-based language infrastructures. The ontology defines a taxonomy of processing resources and the associated static language resources. It also develops a sub-ontology for abstract linguistic objects such as expression, meaning, and description; these help define functionalities of a linguistic service. The proposed ontology is expected to serve as a solid basis for the interoperability of technical elements in language infrastructures. . | A Linguistic Service Ontology for Language Infrastructures Yoshihiko Hayashi Graduate School of Language and Culture Osaka University 1-8 Machikaneyama-cho Toyonaka 560-0043 Japan hayashi@ Abstract This paper introduces conceptual framework of an ontology for describing linguistic services on network-based language infrastructures. The ontology defines a taxonomy of processing resources and the associated static language resources. It also develops a sub-ontology for abstract linguistic objects such as expression meaning and description these help define functionalities of a linguistic service. The proposed ontology is expected to serve as a solid basis for the interoperability of technical elements in language infrastructures. 1 Introduction Several types of linguistic services are currently available on the Web including text translation and dictionary access. A variety of NLP tools is also available and public. In addition to these a number of community-based language resources targeting particular domains of application have been developed and some of them are ready for dissemination. A composite linguistic service tailored to a particular user s requirements would be composable if there were a language infrastructure on which elemental linguistic services such as NLP tools and associated language resources could be efficiently combined. Such an infrastructure should provide an efficient mechanism for creating workflows of composite services by means of authoring tools for the moment and through an automated planning in the future. To this end technical components in an infrastructure must be properly described and the se 145 mantics of the descriptions should be defined based on a shared ontology. 2 Architecture of a Language Infrastructure The linguistic service ontology described in this paper has not been intended for a particular language infrastructure. However we expect that the ontology should be first introduced in an infrastructure .