Reusing the Mikrokosmos Ontology for Concept-based Multilingual Terminology Databases
Antonio Moreno, Chantal Pérez · 2000
This paper reports work carried out within a multilingual terminology project (OncoTerm) in which the Mikrokosmos (µK) ontology (Mahesh, 1996;Viegas et al 1999) has been used as a language independent conceptual structure to achieve a truly concept-based terminology database (termbase, for short).The original ontology, containing nearly 4,700 concepts and available in Lisp-like format (January 1997 version), was first converted into a set of tables in a relational database.A specific software tool was developed in order to edit and browse this resource.This tool has now been integrated within a termbase editor and released under the name of OntoTerm™.In this paper we focus on the suitability of the µK ontology for the representation of domain-specific knowledge and its associated lexical items.