Publishing Multilingual Ontologies: A Quick Way of Obtaining Feedback

The main approach to get into these objectives is to define an ontology algebra to deal with the main object type (ontologies) but as well other objects we will want to reuse (thesauri, taxonomies and word lists). This ontology algebra includes these major operators: • translation: add a new language to a thesaurus which does not include it; • inversion: take a thesaurus which has a specific base language and other languages and change its base language to one of the available languages; • completion: definition of a set of rules to be able to auto-complete the ontology, like inversion rules (specify that two relations are inverses one of the other) and forward-chaining rules. • assimilation and joining thesaurus: take different sources thesaurus and join term properties, as well as treat ambiguities and different concepts identified by the same term. • publishing: produce views or ways to browse and search the ontology created.