Terminological Representation and Reasoning, Semantic Translation

Abstract

First, this section describes the requirements which we have to take into account with regard to the annotation and querying of terminological information sources. Secondly, we discuss how the terms or concepts are represented. We further propose necessary reasoning components and show how these can be used to integrate information on a conceptual level. The next subsection deals with the integration/translation on the data level, which we also refer to as context transformation. We conclude this section with an example.

This section summarizes ideas published elsewhere [132,87]. The ontological representation and the comparison of eligible languages has been discussed in [111] and [141]. The subsection about context transformation by rules is mainly based on the work of [138]. Fundamental ideas about semantic translation has been introduced and discussed in [131].