ComputationalLexiconsandtheSemanticWeb.ppt

Bucharest, 30 July 2003 Computational Lexicons and the Semantic Web Alessandro Lenci Università di Pisa – Department of Linguistics Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale - CNR Tutorial Outline Computational lexicons for the Semantic Web (SW) how they are how they should be The SW for computational lexicons lexicon design in the age of the SW Training session case study – lexical modelling in RDF/S The Semantic Web Vision Turning the WWW into a machine understandable knowledge base Six Challenges for the SW(Benjamins et al. 2002) Content availability Ontology availability Multilinguality Scalability Visualization Stability of SW languages Six Challenges for the SW(Benjamins et al. 2002) Content availability Ontology availability Multilinguality Scalability Visualization Stability of SW languages Lexical Information and HLT All language analysis involves determining meaning at some level Anything from groups of related words to a full-blown representation of each sentence Computational Lexicons and HLT Explicit representation of word meaning word content accessible to computational agents Word meaning linked to word syntax and morphology Multilingual lexical links Computational Lexicons and HLT Contain the linguistic information required to build meaning representations Computational Lexicons and HLT Critical language resources for NLP systems syntactic subcategorization frames for parsing semantic selectional preferences for ambiguity reduction semantic classes for WSD, semantic tagging, etc. Key components of HLT monolingual lexicons – IE, QA, etc. multilingual lexicons – MT, CLIR, etc. Ontologies and Computational Lexicons Ontologies An ontology is a system of concepts relevant for knowledge and action in (a portion of) the world categorization of objects and processes inference action planning … Ontologies Types of Ontologies Linguistic Ontology A system of symbols representing the concepts (meanings) encoded by NL expressions (lexical units, terms, etc.) s