Mapping German Word Senses Onto a Core Ontology to Create a Multilingual Language Engineering Resource

Ontological Engineering

Volume

Papers from the 1997 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

A study is presented in which experimental subjects map German word senses onto an English ontology by completing questionnaires over the World Wide Web. The work is intended to establish whether such an approach could be used to create a multilingual concept ontology. While the methods need further refinement, the results of this study, taken together with those of two previous ones, suggest that the method is viable.