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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.LDK.2021.20
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-145566
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Chiarcos, Christian ; Ionov, Maxim ; Glaser, Luis ; Fäth, Christian

An Ontology for CoNLL-RDF: Formal Data Structures for TSV Formats in Language Technology

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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.

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@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}
}

Keywords: language technology, data models, CoNLL-RDF, ontology
Collection: 3rd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2021)
Issue Date: 2021
Date of publication: 30.08.2021
Supplementary Material: Dataset (Ontology): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4361476

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