Authors:
Noura Herradi
1
;
Fayçal Hamdi
2
;
Elisabeth Métais
2
and
Assia Soukane
3
Affiliations:
1
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) and Ecole Centrale d'Electronique (ECE), France
;
2
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), France
;
3
Ecole Centrale d'Electronique (ECE), France
Keyword(s):
Semantic Web, Ontology, Linked Data, Vocabulary, Multicultural, Multilingual, Interpersonal Relationships.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Data Engineering
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge Representation
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology Engineering
;
Semantic Web
;
Soft Computing
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Many existing open linked datasets include descriptions of real world persons, with the relationships between
them. For some traditional and/or emerging relationships, existing ontologies do not provide the adequate
links. This paper represents PersonLink, an ontology that defines rigorously and precisely family relationships,
and takes into account the differences that may exist between cultures, including new relationships emerging
in our societies nowadays. Moreover, the transition from one culture/language to another one cannot be solved
with a simple translation of terms, especially when concepts do not intersect in different languages; thus our
solution refers to a multicultural meta-ontology of concepts and associated mechanisms. A validation has been
performed on two linked datasets DBpedia and Freebase.