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Countering language attrition with PanLex and the Web of Data

  • Patrick Westphal*
  • , Claus Stadler
  • , Jonathan Pool
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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9 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

The world is losing some of its 7,000 languages. Hypothesizing that language attrition might subside if all languages were intertranslatable, the PanLex project supports panlingual lexical translation by integrating all known lexical translations. Semantic Web technologies can flexibly represent and reason with the content of its database and interlink it with linguistic and other resources and annotations. Conversely, PanLex, with its collection of translation links between more than a billion pairs of lexemes from more than 9,000 language varieties, can improve the coverage of the Linguistic Web of Data. We detail how we transformed the content of the PanLex database to RDF, established conformance with the lemon and GOLD data models, interlinked it with Lexvo and DBpedia, and published it as Linked Data and via SPARQL.

Original languageEnglish
JournalSemantic Web
Volume6
Issue number4
Pages (from-to)347-353
Number of pages7
ISSN1570-0844
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12.05.2015
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 - IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved.

Research areas and keywords

  • lexical resource
  • LLOD cloud
  • Multilingual Linked Open Data
  • PanLex
  • RDB2RDF
  • RDF
  • SPARQL
  • Sparqlify
  • Informatics
  • Business informatics

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Information Systems
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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