An Ontology for Linguistic Annotation
Scott O. Farrar, William Dodge Lewis, D. Terence Langendoen · 2002
This paper discusses some of the design criteria for a linguistic ontology that can be used to support multilin-gual and crosslinguistic searches and queries on the Internet. It focuses on integrating linguistic concepts and instances into an upper-level ontology, and shows that the result can be understood and analyzed as a feature (structure) system. It considers various types of linguistic structure ranging from segment types to grammati-cal properties and relations, and linguistic inventories including phoneme tables, inflectional paradigms, lexi-cons, and grammatical descriptions.