Semantic annotation: mapping text to ontologies. (25th January 2008)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Poibeau, Thierry
• Is Part Of: International journal of metadata, semantics and ontologies. Volume 2:Number 2(2007)
• Page Start: 67
• Page End: 78
• Publication Date: 2008-01-25
• Subjects: semantic web -- semantic annotation -- texts -- ontologies -- natural language processing -- complexity -- ambiguity -- polysemy -- language diversity; Metadata -- Periodicals; Semantic Web -- Periodicals; Ontologies (Information retrieval) -- Periodicals; Data structures (Computer science) -- Periodicals; Information theory -- Periodicals; 005.74
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-2621

Abstract

This position paper discusses various issues concerning the semantic web. We claim that reflection on formats has attracted the most important part of the research effort so far, whereas the web (including the future semantic web) is mainly made of texts. From our point of view, research should attach a major role to natural language properties and deal with complexity, ambiguity and polysemy. We show that the initial model from T. Berners-Lee must be refined and made more complex if these natural language technologies are to take language diversity into account.