Re: Welcome to Community Group on Ontology-Lexica

Dear list members,

my name is Christian Chiarcos, affiliated with the Applied Computational  
Linguistics Lab at the University of Potsdam, Germany.

My interest in ontologies originally comes out of research on  
interoperable representation formalisms for linguistic resources,  
especially, linguistic corpora and their annotations. I have developed the  
OLiA ontologies, a set of ontologies to represent linguistic annotations  
(morphosyntax, syntax, discourse) in a conceptually interoperable way:  
Annotation schemes for approx. 70 languages are modeled in OWL/DL, linked  
to a "Reference Model" which is derived from (and linked to) ISOcat, GOLD,  
and OntoTag. This approach can naturally be extended to grammatical  
information in lexicons. Besides, I work on the ontological modeling of  
linguistic corpora in OWL/DL, based on the research of our group on  
representation formalisms for linguistic annotations and the ANNIS corpus  
information system developed to store, to query and to visualize these.

I am also involved in the organization of the Open Linguistics Working  
Group (OWLG) of the Open Knowledge Foundation  
(http://linguistics.okfn.org), an initiative of experts from different  
fields concerned with linguistic data working towards 1) the promotion of  
the idea of open linguistic resources, 2) the development of means for  
their
representation, and 3) encouraging the exchange of ideas across different  
disciplines. To a certain extent, the activities of the Open Linguistics  
Working Group converge towards the creation of a Linguistic Linked Open  
Data cloud, and in this respect, there is a some degree of thematical  
overlap between the OWLG and the W3C group that I (and a number of other  
people, I guess, too) would like to explore further.

Finally, I should mention that I have a past in Natural Language  
Generation (which was the topic of my PhD thesis), so, also from this  
angle, I am highly interested in participating in forthcoming discussions  
within this group.

Best regards,
Christian
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Christian Chiarcos
Applied Computational Linguistics
Universität Potsdam
snail: Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476 Golm, Germany
email: chiarcos@uni-potsdam.de
phone: +49-331-977-2664
www: http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/~chiarcos

Received on Friday, 4 November 2011 16:24:16 UTC