Matching Multi-lingual Subject Vocabularies Export

@incollection{citeulike:6081289, abstract = {Most libraries and other cultural heritage institutions use controlled knowledge organisation systems, such as thesauri, to describe their collections. Unfortunately, as most of these institutions use different such systems, unified access to heterogeneous collections is difficult. Things are even worse in an international context when concepts have labels in different languages. In order to overcome the multilingual interoperability problem between European Libraries, extensive work has been done to manually map concepts from different knowledge organisation systems, which is a tedious and expensive process. Within the TELplus project, we developed and evaluated methods to automatically discover these mappings, using different ontology matching techniques. In experiments on major French, English and German subject heading lists Rameau, LCSH and SWD, we show that we can automatically produce mappings of surprisingly good quality, even when using relatively naive translation and matching methods.}, author = {Wang, Shenghui and Isaac, Antoine and Schopman, Balthasar and Schlobach, Stefan and van der Meij, Lourens}, citeulike-article-id = {6081289}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04346-8_14}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/u8u2108543252x41}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-04346-8_14}, journal = {Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries}, keywords = {controlled\_vocabularies, kos, multilingual-digital-libraries, skos, subject\_headings}, pages = {125--137}, posted-at = {2009-11-06 17:02:45}, priority = {4}, title = {Matching Multi-lingual Subject Vocabularies}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04346-8_14}, year = {2009} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:6081289 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6081289 N2 - Most libraries and other cultural heritage institutions use controlled knowledge organisation systems, such as thesauri, to describe their collections. Unfortunately, as most of these institutions use different such systems, unified access to heterogeneous collections is difficult. Things are even worse in an international context when concepts have labels in different languages. In order to overcome the multilingual interoperability problem between European Libraries, extensive work has been done to manually map concepts from different knowledge organisation systems, which is a tedious and expensive process. Within the TELplus project, we developed and evaluated methods to automatically discover these mappings, using different ontology matching techniques. In experiments on major French, English and German subject heading lists Rameau, LCSH and SWD, we show that we can automatically produce mappings of surprisingly good quality, even when using relatively naive translation and matching methods. JF - Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries EP - 137 TI - Matching Multi-lingual Subject Vocabularies SP - 125 KW - controlled_vocabularies KW - kos KW - multilingual-digital-libraries KW - skos KW - subject_headings AU - Wang, Shenghui AU - Isaac, Antoine AU - Schopman, Balthasar AU - Schlobach, Stefan AU - van der Meij, Lourens PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04346-8_14 ER -