Re: next teleconference

Dear Philipp, all,

Let me add a couple of comments to the agenda that I hope will be useful
for tomorrow's discussion

> 1) Goals of the lexicography module

In the paper we presented at the Ontolex WS at LDK'17 we tried to motivate
it [1]. In my view, the goal of the module can be summarised as follows: to
complement (the core of) OntoLex and overcome its limitations when
modelling lexicographic information as linked data, in a way that is
agnostic of the underlying lexicographic view and minimises information
loss.


> 2) Lexicography module: modelling existing dictionaries or providing
> a conceptual / abstract model of language and linguistic objects ?

I think that we should cover both targets. After analysing the literature,
we perceive an obvious need for reaching some agreements that allows for a
better and more interoperable migration of existing dictionaries into LD.
For example, Oxford has their own notion of "dictionary entry" [2]
materialised in the "ogl:Entry" class while we introduced the ad-hoc
"kd:dictionaryEntry" relation in the conversion of the KD global series
dictionaries [3], and more people will introduce their own solutions as
well to cover similar notions. Being interoperability a key issue in LD
technologies, it makes a lot of sense to build a common space in which
these things can be agreed and commonly defined, for which the Ontolex
community is a natural forum.

However, although the primary goal might be to model existing dictionaries,
this can be done by extracting what they have in common and in a way that
is decoupled from specific linguistic views. Thus, the new module should
remain highly re-usable across dictionaries, as well as useful for new
LD-based dictionaries built from scratch. We asume of course that many
specific ingredients from specific dictionaries and views will still need
ad-hoc constructs, but having a few common entities defined in the module
will help to overcome the limitations that have been detected when current
OntoLex is applied to lexicographic data, and can greatly benefit
interoperability.

Best regards,
Jorge

[1] "We ground our proposal for a lexicography module on the following four
points: (1) the use of OntoLex by the majority of the community to convert
linguistic resources to LLD instead of to lexicalize ontologies, (2) the
nature of lemon being descriptive but not prescriptive and the respect
towards different lexicographic views, (3) the coming together of the
lexicography and the Semantic Web communities and potential benefits that
LLD may bring about to lexicography, assuming it involves no information
loss, and (4) the reuse of already available mechanisms in OntoLex." (see
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1899/OntoLex_2017_paper_5.pdf)

[2] See http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/pdf/523_Paper.pdf

[3] See
http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/workshops/LREC2016Workshop-GLOBALEX_Proceedings-v2.pdf

2017-09-21 9:54 GMT+02:00 Philipp Cimiano <cimiano@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de>:

> Dear all,
>
>    an email from elex, which is being really interesting.
>
> I want to propose to have our next teleconference on Tuesday 26th at
> 15:00 CEST.
>
> The topics I want to discuss, raised during last telco:
>
> 1) Goals of the lexicography module
>
> 2) Lexicography module: modelling existing dictionaries or providing
> a conceptual / abstract model of language and linguistic objects ?
>
> 3) Process to follow to define the lexicography module
>
> Best regards,
>
> Philipp.
>
>
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Jorge Gracia, PhD
Ontology Engineering Group
Artificial Intelligence Department
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
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