Multilingual Cataloguing of Product Information of Specific Domains: Case Mkbeem System

This paper describes the Cataloguing Tool of the Mkbeem multilingual eCommerce mediation system. The Cataloguing Tool is used by product suppliers to provide necessary product information in a form required by the mediation system. The relevant information includes product articles that are maintained in a pivot language and automatically translated to other supported languages. From the supplier viewpoint the Cataloguing Tool implements "write-once-publish-many" paradigm. Other functionalities of the tool include automatic extraction of product properties from text articles along to an ontological product model and automatic classification of products based on their properties and ontology models. This paper describes the Cataloguing Tool and discusses in more detail about the use of ontologies in automatic interpretation of the semantics of product articles and user queries.