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An Experiment in Managing Language Diversity Across Cultures

Authors:
Amarsanaa Ganbold
Feroz Farazi
Fausto Giunchiglia

Keywords: Ontology localization, space ontology, space domain, ontology, Semantic Web

Abstract:
Developing ontologies from scratch appears to be very expensive in terms of cost and time required and often such efforts remain unfinished for decades. Ontology localization through translation seems to be a promising approach towards addressing this issue as it enables the greater reuse of the ontological (backbone) structure. However, during ontology localization, managing language diversity across cultures remains as a challenge that has to be taken into account and dealt with the right level of attention and expertise. In this paper, we report the result of our experiment, performed on approximately 1000 concepts taken from the space ontology originally developed in English, consisted in providing their translation into Mongolian.

Pages: 51 to 57

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: March 23, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4375

ISBN: 978-1-61208-329-2

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from March 23, 2014 to March 27, 2014