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Collaborative Management of Multilingual Ontologies

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The usage of multilingual resources has registered a significant increase in the last decade. Multilinguality is used in several fields of computer science, and the necessity of managing multilingual information has become an important as well as critical task. In this chapter, we face the problem of the management of multilingual ontologies by describing which problems arise in its context, with a particular emphasis on the collaborative modeling aspect. We present a tool that provides features able to support the collaborative management of multilingual ontologies, and we describe a real-world use case in which the exploitation of multilingual ontologies improves the effectiveness of information technology systems.

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    http://www.monnet-project.eu.

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    http://www.knoodl.com.

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    http://moki.fbk.eu.

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    Though MoKi allows to model both ontological and procedural knowledge, here we will limit our description only to the features for building ontologies.

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    We adopt the syntax of latex2owl: https://dkm.fbk.eu/index.php/Latex2owl.

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    http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/.

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    http://www.clef-initiative.eu.

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    Alessio Bosca

  2. FBK-IRST, Trento, Italy

    Mauro Dragoni, Chiara Di Francescomarino & Chiara Ghidini

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Bosca, A., Dragoni, M., Di Francescomarino, C., Ghidini, C. (2014). Collaborative Management of Multilingual Ontologies. In: Buitelaar, P., Cimiano, P. (eds) Towards the Multilingual Semantic Web. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43585-4_11

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