Terminology-based patterns for natural language definitions in ontologies
Dagmar Gromann · 2013
Abstract. Natural language content in ontologies is crucial to any hu-man interaction with them, but scarcely available. Terminology science centers on best practices in domain-specific natural languages. Hence, ontologies can benefit from the systematic approach of terminology to natural language definitions. This paper proposes an Annotation On-tology Design Pattern named Natural Language Definition ODP that provides natural language definitions for ontology classes. For this pur-pose, a (semi-)automated method for implementing this pattern com-bining ontology verbalization and information extraction is investigated herein and exemplified in the domain of finance.