Rebuilding Babel with ontologies
Brueghel, Tower Of Babel
The UNL, Universal Networking Language, is an ambitious initiative from United Nations that began in 1996. The UNL is an artificial computer language that replicates the functions of natural languages. It is one of the attempts to build a pivot computer language for machine translation.
Researchers from the group of Validation and Business Applications , based at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid’s School of Computing (FIUPM) have take advantage of UNL and its idea of Universal Word (UW) stems to build multilingual ontologies.
The use of universal words can reduce the ambiguity and diversity of ontologies, which are failing at providing universal representations of concepts within a domain because of its English centered nature.
They have presented a case study using the contents of the current catalogue of Spanish monuments as part of the Patrilex project.
