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| Title | An ontological approach to model and query multimodal concurrent linguistic annotations |
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| Authors | Julien Seinturier, Elisabeth Murisasco, Emmanuel Bruno and Philippe Blache |
| Abstract | This paper focuses on the representation and querying of knowledge-based multimodal data. This work stands in the OTIM project which aims at processing multimodal annotation of a large conversational French speech corpus. Within OTIM, we aim at providing linguists with a unique framework to encode and manipulate numerous linguistic domains (from prosody to gesture). Linguists commonly use Typed Feature Structures (TFS) to provide an uniform view of multimodal annotations but such a representation cannot be used within an applicative framework. Moreover TFS expressibility is limited to hierarchical and constituency relations and does not suit to any linguistic domain that needs for example to represent temporal relations. To overcome these limits, we propose an ontological approach based on Description logics (DL) for the description of linguistic knowledge and we provide an applicative framework based on OWL DL (Ontology Web Language) and the query language SPARQL. |
| Topics | Knowledge Discovery/Representation, Ontologies, Tools, systems, applications |
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An ontological approach to model and query multimodal concurrent linguistic annotations |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{SEINTURIER12.372, author = {Julien Seinturier and Elisabeth Murisasco and Emmanuel Bruno and Philippe Blache}, title = {An ontological approach to model and query multimodal concurrent linguistic annotations}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)}, year = {2012}, month = {may}, date = {23-25}, address = {Istanbul, Turkey}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Mehmet Uğur Doğan and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-7-7}, language = {english} } |