Representing Translations on the Semantic Web

Abstract

The increase of ontologies and data sets published in the Web in languages other than English raises some issues related to the representation of linguistic (multilingual) information in ontologies. Such linguistic descriptions can contribute to the establishment of links between ontologies and data sets described in multiple natural languages in the Linked Open Data cloud. For these reasons, several models have been proposed recently to enable richer linguistic descriptions in ontologies. Among them, we nd lemon, an RDF ontology-lexicon model that denes specic modules for dierent types of linguistic descriptions. In this contribution we propose a new module to represent translation relations between lexicons in dierent natural languages associated to the same ontology or belonging to dierent ontologies. This module can enable the representation of dierent types of translation relations, as well as translation metadata such as provenance or the reliability score of translations