Collaborative semantic editing of linked data lexica
John Philip McCrae, Elena Montiel-Ponsoda, Philipp Cimiano · 2012
The creation of language resources is a time-consuming process requiring the efforts of many people.The use of resources collaboratively created by non-linguists can potentially ameliorate this situation.However, such resources often contain more errors compared to resources created by experts.For the particular case of lexica, we analyse the case of Wiktionary, a resource created along wiki principles and argue that through the use of a principled lexicon model, namely lemon, the resulting data could be better understandable to machines.We then present a platform called lemon source that supports the creation of linked lexical data along the lemon model.This tool builds on the concept of a semantic wiki to enable collaborative editing of the resources by many users concurrently.In this paper, we describe the model, the tool and present an evaluation of its usability based on a small group of users.