Foreword to the Special Issue: "Towards the Multilingual Web of Data"

McCrae, J.P. ; Gracia, J. (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: We are pleased to introduce this special issue on the topic of “Towards theMultilingualWeb of Data”, which we feel is a timely and valuable topic in our increasingly multilingual and interconnected world. TheWeb of Data has increasingly become a space where concepts are described not only with logic and ontologies but also with linguistic information in the form of multilingual lexicons, terminologies and thesauri. In particular, this has led to the creation of a growing cloud of linguistic linked open data, which bridges the world of ontologies with dictionaries, corpora and other linguistic resources. This raises several challenges, such as ontology localization, cross-lingual question answering, cross-lingual ontology and data matching, representation of lexical information on theWeb of Data, etc.
Furthermore, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning for linked data can benefit from exploiting multilingual language resources, such as annotated corpora, wordnets, bilingual dictionaries, etc., if they are themselves formally represented and linked by following the linked data principles. A critical mass of language resources as linked data on the Web are leading to a new generation of linked data-aware NLP techniques and tools which, in turn, will serve as basis for a richer, multilingualWeb...

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.3390/info10020056

Año: 2019

Publicado en: Information (Basel) 10, 2 (2019), 56 [2 pp]
ISSN: 2078-2489

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.353 - Information Systems (Q3)

Tipo y forma: (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Lenguajes y Sistemas Inf. (Dpto. Informát.Ingenie.Sistms.)