Lexical Mediation for Ontology-Based Annotation of Multimedia

Abstract

'Open Data' has become very important in a wide range of fields. However for linguistics, much data is still published in proprietary, closed formats and is not made available on the web. We propose the use of linked data principles to enable language resources to be published and interlinked openly on the web, and we describe the application of this paradigm to the modeling of two resources, WordNet and the MASC corpus. Here, WordNet and the MASC corpus serve as representative examples for two major classes of linguistic resources, lexicalsemantic resources and annotated corpora, respectively.Furthermore, we argue that modeling and publishing language resources as linked data offers crucial advantages as compared to existing formalisms. In particular, it is explained how this can enhance the interoperability and the integration of linguistic resources. Further benefits of this approach include unambiguous identifiability of elements of linguistic description, the creation of dynamic, but unambiguous links between different resources, the possibility to query across distributed resources, and the availability of a mature technological infrastructure. Finally, recent community activities are described.C. Chiarcos ( )

Coupling conceptual modeling and rules for the annotation of dramatic media

“…In FrameNet the linguistic description of an event is represented by mapping the syntactic constituents of the description onto the set of roles that constitute the frame of the event. In Drammar, by using the Time Indexed Situation design pattern [44], the participants to a given situation (either a state or a process) are mapped onto the set of roles included in the situation description according to FrameNet [17].…”

Multimedia tool suite for the visualization of drama heritage metadata

“…1, there is the top level of the Drammar ontology. Each class has then a number of subclasses; we will describe the most relevant here; a complete description is in [16].…”

“…When the annotator inserts some metadata (e.g., some Action name) the corresponding Java class creates the fragments of the ontology that can store the related instance, connected with all the classes through the appropriate properties. The ontology is managed through the Owlim platform, 16 a wellknown semantic repository, which offers a native RDF engine and reasoning services. The result of the annotation is an RDF graph 17 that instantiates the classes and properties of the drama ontology, while the object-level elements of the story, following the paradigm of linked data [31], refer to URIs in external ontologies that describe them as commonsense knowledge concepts.…”

“…plans can be fully realized, or failing): some plan actions are actually executed (as timeline incidents) and contribute to 16 http://www.ontotext.com/owlim. 17 http://www.w3schools.com/rdf/rdf_reference.asp).…”

Ontology–Based Visualization of Characters’ Intentions

“…Following the paradigm of linked data [11], each different value of a quality is referred via an IRI (Internationalized Resource Identifiers) 6 pointing to some external common sense or domain specific ontology. [3] presents the linguistic interface for the annotation of linguistic schemata and commonsense knowledge information (involving the FrameNet roles and linguistic frames [1] and YAGO-SUMO commonsense ontology [4]). In Fig.…”