Dear Hugh,
We understand Ontology Localization (or Localisation) as the whole
process, which normally involves the translation of labels, so I would
say you can talk about label translation.
Ontology Localization may also involve other adaptations or
modifications of the ontology (even a re-engineering process, if
needed), but the transfer of natural language descriptions from one
language to another would be called translation.
In fact, we have developed a system called LabelTranslation... :), which
is available as a plug-in of the ontology editor NeOn Toolkit, to
automatically localize or translate ontologies. It is described in the
papers of Espinoza et al., referenced by Asun in the previous e-mail.
The same is valid for Software Localization. Translation is normally a
part of the whole process that may involve technical adaptations, etc.
I hope it helps!
Elena
El 01/09/2011 18:09, Hugh Glaser escribió:
Thanks.
So the set of labels etc. in English should be referred to as the "English
Localization"?
Although maybe the "English Localisation"? +-)
I am after the noun, not the verb, to be clear.
Hugh
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From: "Asunción Gómez Pérez"<[email protected]>
To: "Hugh Glaser"<[email protected]>, "Elena Montiel"<[email protected]>
Cc: "Dave Reynolds"<[email protected]>, "Linking Open
Data"<[email protected]>
Subject: Multi-lingual labels for org ontology
Date: Thu, Sep 1, 2011 4:59 pm
We call it Ontology Localization. Just in case you are interested on the
topoic, there are several papers published about the topic:
* M. Espinoza, A. Gómez-Pérez, and E. Mena. Enriching an ontology with
multilingual information. In Proceedings of the European Semantic Web
Conference (ESWC 2008), pages 333–347, 2008.
* M. Espinoza, A. Gómez-Pérez, and E. Montiel-Ponsoda. Multilingual and
localization support for ontologies. In Proceedings of the European Semantic
Web Conference (ESWC 2009), pages 821–825, 2009.
* M. Espinoza, E. Montiel-Ponsoda, and A. Gómez-Pérez. Ontology
localization. In Proceedings of the 5th International. Conference on Knowledge
Capture (KCAP), pages 33–40, 2009.
* P. Cimiano, E. Montiel-Ponsoda, P. Buitelaar, M. Espinoza, A.
Gómez-Pérez. A Note on Ontology Localization - Journal of Applied Ontology
5(2), 2010.
Best
Asun
El 01/09/2011 17:39, Hugh Glaser escribió:
Nice.
So should these be called translations?
They are French labels etc. for the resources.
I guess they were probably/possibly arrived at by translating from English, but
now it has happened, what is the right name for it all?
Or should we talk about the English translations?
Best
Hugh
On 1 Sep 2011, at 14:35, "Dave
Reynolds"<[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks to Dominique Guardiola the org ontology [1][2] now has French
translations for the label/comment/title strings.
It's good to see multi-lingual support in semantic web ontologies and
I'm very grateful to Dominique for volunteering to do this translation.
Dave
[1] http://www.w3.org/ns/org#
[2] http://www.epimorphics.com/public/vocabulary/org.html
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