Extracting hyponymy patterns in Tibetan language to enrich minority languages knowledge base

Abstract

Semantic ontology is a formal, explicit specification of a shared conceptualization. The construction of semantic ontology knowledge base is the vital process in language processing, which is applied in information retrieval, information extraction and automatic translation. Hyponymy pattern is a basic semantic relationship between concepts, which is used to concepts acquisition to enrich ontology automatically. In this paper, the construction idea of multilingual ontology with unified criteria and interface are introduced, and hyponymy pattern is represented as a pair of a meaning frame defining the necessary information extraction in Tibetan language. The research of hyponymy relationship pattern can assist concept enrichment in ontology, which can reduce the cost during the ontology engineering process. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.