A multilingual ontology matcher

Gábor Bella, Fausto Giunchiglia, Ahmed AbuRa'ed, Fiona McNeill
2015 International Semantic Web Conference  
State-of-the-art multilingual ontology matchers use machine translation to reduce the problem to the monolingual case. We investigate an alternative, self-contained solution based on semantic matching where labels are parsed by multilingual natural language processing and then matched using a language-independent knowledge base acting as an interlingua. As the method relies on the availability of domain vocabularies in the languages supported, matching and vocabulary enrichment become joint,
more » ... ually reinforcing tasks. In particular, we propose a vocabulary enrichment method that uses the matcher's output to detect and generate missing items semi-automatically. Vocabularies developed in this manner can then be reused for other domain-specific natural language understanding tasks. 1 We use the term cross-lingual matching as a specific case of multilingual matching when ontologies in two different languages are being aligned.
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