LingInfo: Design and Applications of a Model for the Integration of Linguistic Information in Ontologies

To allow for a direct connection of this linguistic information for terms with corresponding classes and properties in a domain ontology, we developed a lexicon model (LingInfo) that enables the definition of LingInfo instances (each of which represents a term) for each class or property. The LingInfo model is represented by use of a meta-class, which allows for the representation of LingInfo instances with each class, where each LingInfo instance represents the linguistic features of a term for a particular class. Applications of the LingInfo model are in information extraction, dialogue analysis, and knowledge acquisition from text, i.e. in knowledge base generation and ontology learning. 1. LingInfo: Motivation and Design To allow for automatic multilingual knowledge markup a richer representation is needed of the features of linguistic expressions (such as domain terms, their synonyms and multilingual variants) for ontology classes and properties. Currently, such information is mostly missing or represented in impoverished ways, leaving the semantic information in an ontology without a groundin