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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

2. Towards Open Data for Linguistics: Linguistic Linked Data

Authors : Christian Chiarcos, John McCrae, Philipp Cimiano, Christiane Fellbaum

Published in: New Trends of Research in Ontologies and Lexical Resources

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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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, lexical-semantic 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.

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Footnotes
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The term ‘resource’ is ambiguous here. As understood in this chapter, resources are structured collections of data which can be represented, for example, in RDF. Hence, we prefer the terms ‘node’ or ‘concept’ whenever RDF resources are meant.
 
2
We provide a SPARQL endpoint under http://​monnetproject.​deri.​ie/​lemonsource_​query, which provides access to the examples discussed in this chapter.
 
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Other domains where the linked data principles have been applied, include, e.g., geography [20], biomedicine [1], cultural history (http://​www.​europeana.​eu) or government data (e.g., http://​data.​gov and http://​data.​gov.​uk).
 
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For example, the W3C Semantic Web Activity reported on developments for Media Resources, Data Provenance and Microdata in the first 2 weeks of February 2012
 
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Metadata
Title
Towards Open Data for Linguistics: Linguistic Linked Data
Authors
Christian Chiarcos
John McCrae
Philipp Cimiano
Christiane Fellbaum
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book
New Trends of Research in Ontologies and Lexical Resources

Print ISBN: 978-3-642-31781-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-642-31782-8

Copyright Year: 2013

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31782-8_2

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