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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.LDK.2021.20
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-145566
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2021/14556/
Chiarcos, Christian ;
Ionov, Maxim ;
Glaser, Luis ;
Fäth, Christian
An Ontology for CoNLL-RDF: Formal Data Structures for TSV Formats in Language Technology
Abstract
In language technology and language sciences, tab-separated values (TSV) represent a frequently used formalism to represent linguistically annotated natural language, often addressed as "CoNLL formats". A large number of such formats do exist, but although they share a number of common features, they are not interoperable, as different pieces of information are encoded differently in these dialects.
CoNLL-RDF refers to a programming library and the associated data model that has been introduced to facilitate processing and transforming such TSV formats in a serialization-independent way. CoNLL-RDF represents CoNLL data, by means of RDF graphs and SPARQL update operations, but so far, without machine-readable semantics, with annotation properties created dynamically on the basis of a user-defined mapping from columns to labels. Current applications of CoNLL-RDF include linking between corpora and dictionaries [Mambrini and Passarotti, 2019] and knowledge graphs [Tamper et al., 2018], syntactic parsing of historical languages [Chiarcos et al., 2018; Chiarcos et al., 2018], the consolidation of syntactic and semantic annotations [Chiarcos and Fäth, 2019], a bridge between RDF corpora and a traditional corpus query language [Ionov et al., 2020], and language contact studies [Chiarcos et al., 2018].
We describe a novel extension of CoNLL-RDF, introducing a formal data model, formalized as an ontology. The ontology is a basis for linking RDF corpora with other Semantic Web resources, but more importantly, its application for transformation between different TSV formats is a major step for providing interoperability between CoNLL formats.
BibTeX - Entry
@InProceedings{chiarcos_et_al:OASIcs.LDK.2021.20,
author = {Chiarcos, Christian and Ionov, Maxim and Glaser, Luis and F\"{a}th, Christian},
title = {{An Ontology for CoNLL-RDF: Formal Data Structures for TSV Formats in Language Technology}},
booktitle = {3rd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2021)},
pages = {20:1--20:14},
series = {Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-199-3},
ISSN = {2190-6807},
year = {2021},
volume = {93},
editor = {Gromann, Dagmar and S\'{e}rasset, Gilles and Declerck, Thierry and McCrae, John P. and Gracia, Jorge and Bosque-Gil, Julia and Bobillo, Fernando and Heinisch, Barbara},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2021/14556},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-145566},
doi = {10.4230/OASIcs.LDK.2021.20},
annote = {Keywords: language technology, data models, CoNLL-RDF, ontology}
}
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language technology, data models, CoNLL-RDF, ontology |
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3rd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2021) |
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2021 |
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30.08.2021 |
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Dataset (Ontology): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4361476 |