[ACM Press the 15th international conference - Edinburgh, Scotland (2006.05.23-2006.05.26)] Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web - WWW '06 - Position paper

✍ Scribed by Jarrar, Mustafa

• Book ID: 121499708
• Publisher: ACM Press
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 302 KB
• Category: Article
• ISBN-13: 9781595933232
• DOI: 10.1145/1135777.1135850

✦ Synopsis

In this paper, we first introduce the notion of gloss for ontology engineering purposes. We propose that each vocabulary in an ontology should have a gloss. A gloss basically is an informal description of the meaning of a vocabulary that is supposed to render factual and critical knowledge to understanding a concept, but that is unreasonable or very difficult to formalize and/or articulate formally. We present a set of guidelines on what should and should not be provided in a gloss. Second, we propose to incorporate linguistic resources in the ontology engineering process. We clarify the importance of using lexical resources as a "consensus reference" in ontology engineering, and so enabling the adoption of the glosses found in these resources. A linguistic resource (i.e. its list of terms and their definitions) shall be seen as a shared vocabulary space for ontologies. We present an ontology engineering software tool (called DogmaModeler), and illustrate its support of reusing of WordNet's terms and glosses in ontology modeling.