Multilingual Ontology-based User Profile Enrichment

In this paper, we discuss the possibility of enriching user profiles with multilingual information. Nowadays, the English language is the de facto standard language of commerce and science, however users can speak and interact also in other languages. This brings up the need of enriching the user profiles with multilingual information. Therefore, we propose to combine ontology-based user modeling with the information included in the RDF/OWL EuroWordNet hierarchy. In this way, we can personalize retrieval results according to user preferences, filtering relevant information taking into account the multilingual background of the user.