Russian thesauri as Linked Open Data

Ustalov, Dmitry

URL:	http://www.dialog-21.ru/digests/dialog2015/materia...
Additional URL:	http://www.dialog-21.ru/media/2777/dialogue-2015_v...
Document Type:	Conference or workshop publication
Year of publication:	2015
Book title:	Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies : Papers from the Annual conference "Dialogue 2015", Moscow, May 27 - 30, 2015
The title of a journal, publication series:	Dialogue
Volume:	14,1
Page range:	616-625
Conference title:	Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies 2015
Location of the conference venue:	Moscow, Russia
Date of the conference:	May 27-30, 2015
Place of publication:	Moscow
Publishing house:	RGGU
ISSN:	2221-7932 , 2075-7182
Related URLs:	http://www.dialog-21.ru/media/2132/ustal...
Publication language:	English
Institution:	School of Business Informatics and Mathematics > Wirtschaftsinformatik III (Ponzetto 2016-)
Subject:	004 Computer science, internet
Keywords (English):	Linked Data , Open Data , lexical resources , data integration , Semantic Web , Russian language
Abstract:	Open linguistic data is a good recently established trend allowing both researchers and developers in the eld of natural language processing to create their own applications using high-quality dictionaries, thesauri, corpora, etc. At the same time, the published open data are stored in different formats making them di cult to be used in an e cient way without falling within vendor lock-in. This paper is devoted to the problem of representing popular lexical resources of the Russian language in the form of Linked Open Data. It summarizes the recent work in the field of thesauri representation formats and approaches to converting such formats to those of Linked Data. It also proposes an approach to converting popular Russian thesauri to the vocabularies that are the essential parts of the Linguistic Linked Open Data Cloud. The proposed approach has been implemented in open source software and the resulted dataset has been made publicly available on NLPub in the Turtle format under the terms of a Creative Commons license.