Multilingual Universal Word Explanation Generation from UNL Ontology
Хан, Anwarus Salam, Hiroshi Uchida, Tetsuro Nishino · 2012
To develop a common language, it is essential to have enough vocabulary to express all the concepts contained in all the world languages. Those vocabularies can only be developed by native speakers and should be defined by formal ways. Considering the situation, at this moment Universal Networking Language (UNL) is the best solution as the common language, and Universal Words (UWs) are the most promising candidates to represent all the world concepts in different languages. However, UWs itself are formal and not always to be understandable for human. To ensure every language speakers can create the correct UWs dictionary entry, we need to provide the explanation of UWs in different natural languages for humans. As there are millions of UWs, it is very expensive to manually build the UWs explanation in all natural languages. To solve this problem, this research proposes the way to auto generate the UWs explanation in UNL, using the property inheritance based on UW System. Using UNL DeConverter from that UNL the system can generate the explanation in more than 40 languages.