Supporting Multilingual Semantic Web Services Discovery by Consuming Data from DBpedia Knowledge Base
Nasredine Cheniki, Abdelkader Belkhir, Yacine Atif · 2015
The Web is becoming a truly multilingual hub in which speakers from different languages and cultures are producing, interacting and consuming information. Web services are an essential part of the Web which nowadays attract more and more people around the world. So, supporting multilingual Web services discovery is a crucial goal to achieve, so that providers and users publish or consume Web services independently from their culture and native language. In this paper, we propose to overcome language barrier by supporting multilingual Web services discovery using DBpedia, which is a cross-domain multilingual knowledge base. DBpedia is used to annotate services with semantic entities called resources as well as their categories and types. We take advantage of semantic and multilingual information provided by DBpedia to enable cross-language semantic Web services discovery. Implementation shows that DBpedia offers a valuable information source to achieve our goal.