Thesauri and Ontologies for Digital Libraries

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Authors	SMRŽ Pavel SINOPALNIKOVA Anna POVOLNÝ Martin
Year of publication	2003
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	Digital Libraries: Advanced Methods and Technologies, Digital Collections. Proceedings of the Fifth National Russian Research Conference (RCDL 2003)
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Informatics
Citation
Web	http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/publications/rcdl2003_smrz_anna_xpovolny/
Field	Informatics
Keywords	ontologies; thesauri
Description	The paper discusses the importance of thesauri and ontologies for digital libraries. It deals with standards for metadata representation, namely XML and many related standards. The process of defining a broad-coverage multilingual ontology based on several existing lexical resources is also tackled. A special attention is payed to the incorporation of word-association thesauri that showed to cover many relevant relations essential for the ontology definition. We also present a new software tool that enables to store and efficiently retrieve all the mentioned data.
Related projects:	Human-computer interaction, dialog systems and assistive technologies