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The semantic web as a Linguistic resource: Opportunities for natural language generation
✍ Scribed by Chris Mellish; Xiantang Sun
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 243 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0950-7051
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✦ Synopsis
This paper argues that, because the documents of the semantic web are created by human beings, they are actually much more like natural language documents than theory would have us believe. We present evidence that natural language words are used extensively and in complex ways in current ontologies. This leads to a number of dangers for the semantic web, but also opens up interesting new challenges for natural language processing. This is illustrated by our own work using natural language generation to present parts of ontologies.