Generating Multilingual Personalized Descriptions from OWL Ontologies on the Semantic Web: the NaturalOWL System∗

We present Naturalowl, an open-source multilingual natural language generation system that produces personalized descriptions of individuals and classes, starting from a linguistically annotated ontology. The generator is heavily based on ideas from ilex and m-piro, but it is in many ways simpler and it provides native support for owl dl ontologies, which we annotate with linguistic and user modelling resources in rdf. Naturalowl is written in Java and it is supported by m-piro’s authoring tool, as well as an alternative authoring plug-in for the Protégé ontology editor.