Re: semantic technology solutions for mulitlinginal sites - OR 'semantic browsers'?

Greetings,

I believe, this is going to be one of the largest industries based on 
Semantic Web but multi-lingusitic web will have a slighly different 
architecture. Here are several ideas which might be useful.

If a sentence in a natural language "makes sense" , then the human 
interpreter first builds this sense (meaning) in mind,  then he/she 
articulates it into another language. Human translation involves two 
processes: (1) building the sense of the source language expressions, 
and (2) articulating this sense into the target language

Technologically, I treat sense as Semantic Web content. Therefore, a 
alongside regular text, site builders can scribble in Semantic Web 
languages the sense of the text, and an *articulation engine* for a 
natural language will convey this sense into that natural language.

I would say a *semantic browser*  to be a web agent which comes with 
articulation engines for various natural languages and applies the 
engine for the desired natural language to SemanticWeb content to 
transform it into a text or speech. I believe the "multi-linguistics" 
should be on the client side.

Therefore, I treat the 'multi-lingual sites' as a matter of building 
*articulation engines* as plugged-ins for browsers. Currently there 
exist thousands of ontologies with ___domain specific knowledge and only 
technical people can read them. Semantic browsers are the most needed 
tools to make Semantic Web a democratic phenomenon.

If there is a project somewhere on this, we here would be happy to 
participate - I think, I have some knowledge of how to build an 
articulation engine. 

Ioachim,

Ioachim Drugus, Ph.D.
Main Software Architect,
SemanticSoft, Inc.
www.semanticsoft.net

Jens Lehmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Semantics-ProjectParadigm wrote:
>   
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am writing proposals for setting up web portals to access digital
>> repositories on a large number of knowledge domains.
>>
>> The point is that the same information needs to be made available in a
>> large number of languages.
>>
>> Are there any computer programs, research programs or projects out there
>> that deal with providing semantic web solutions for information that
>> needs to be made available in a large number of different languages?
>>     
>
> Do I understand correctly that you want to expose a knowledge base in
> several languages? RDF/RDFS/OWL allow to add language tags to literals,
> i.e. http://dbpedia.org/resource/House has an rdfs:label in several
> languages. (If you were already aware of this, it might be better to ask
> a more specific question.)
>
> Multilingual CMS are, of course, a different issue as you also need to
> translate UI messages etc.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jens
>
>
>

Received on Tuesday, 16 December 2008 19:18:04 UTC