Multilingual Ontology of Proper Names

Cvetana Krstev (1) , Duško Vitas (2) , Denis Maurel (3) , Mickaël Tran

1 Faculty of Philology
2 Faculty of Mathematics
3 LIFAT - Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale et Appliquée de Tours

This paper deals with a multilingual four-layered ontology of proper names. This ontology is organized around a conceptual proper name that represents the same concepts in different languages.

Mots clés: computational lexicon; proper names; named entities; multilingual ontology population; Prolexbase; Wikipedia; GeoNames; Translatica

Domaines: Traitement du texte et du document; Linguistique

Cvetana Krstev, Duško Vitas, Denis Maurel, Mickaël Tran. Multilingual Ontology of Proper Names. 2nd Language & Technology Conference (LTC'05), 2005, Poznań, Poland. pp.116-119. ⟨hal-01108242⟩