PersonLink: A Multilingual and Multicultural Ontology Representing Family Relationships

Noura Herradi, Fayçal Hamdi, Elisabeth Métais, Assia Soukane

2015

Abstract

Many existing open linked datasets include descriptions of real world persons, with the relationships between them. For some traditional and/or emerging relationships, existing ontologies do not provide the adequate links. This paper represents PersonLink, an ontology that defines rigorously and precisely family relationships, and takes into account the differences that may exist between cultures, including new relationships emerging in our societies nowadays. Moreover, the transition from one culture/language to another one cannot be solved with a simple translation of terms, especially when concepts do not intersect in different languages; thus our solution refers to a multicultural meta-ontology of concepts and associated mechanisms. A validation has been performed on two linked datasets DBpedia and Freebase.

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Herradi N., Hamdi F., Métais E. and Soukane A. (2015). PersonLink: A Multilingual and Multicultural Ontology Representing Family Relationships . In Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-158-8, pages 147-154. DOI: 10.5220/0005584301470154


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@conference{keod15,
author={Noura Herradi and Fayçal Hamdi and Elisabeth Métais and Assia Soukane},
title={PersonLink: A Multilingual and Multicultural Ontology Representing Family Relationships},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={147-154},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005584301470154},
isbn={978-989-758-158-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2015)
TI - PersonLink: A Multilingual and Multicultural Ontology Representing Family Relationships
SN - 978-989-758-158-8
AU - Herradi N.
AU - Hamdi F.
AU - Métais E.
AU - Soukane A.
PY - 2015
SP - 147
EP - 154
DO - 10.5220/0005584301470154