CLOVA: An Architecture for Cross-Language Semantic Data Querying

Multilingual Semantic Web 2010.

计算机科学;

John McCrae ; bielefeld.de ; Philipp Cimiano

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PID  :  42615

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

Semantic web data formalisms such as RDF and OWL al- low us to represent data in a language independent manner. However, so far there is no principled approach allowing us to query such data in multiple languages. We present CLOVA, an architecture for cross-lingual querying that aims to ad- dress this gap. In CLOVA, we make a distinction between a language independent data layer and a language independent lexical layer. We show how this distinction allows us to create modular and extensible cross lingual applications that need to access semantic data. We specify the search interface at a conceptual level using what we call a semantic form spec- ication abstracting from specic languages. We show how, on the basis of this conceptual specication, both the query interface and the query results can be localized to any sup- ported language with almost no eort. More generally, we describe how the separation of the lexical layer can be used with a principled ontology lexicon model (LexInfo) in order to produce application-specic lexicalisations of properties,