RELcat: a Relation Registry for ISOcat data categories

Menzo Windhouwer


Abstract
The ISOcat Data Category Registry contains basically a flat and easily extensible list of data category specifications. To foster reuse and standardization only very shallow relationships among data categories are stored in the registry. However, to assist crosswalks, possibly based on personal views, between various (application) domains and to overcome possible proliferation of data categories more types of ontological relationships need to be specified. RELcat is a first prototype of a Relation Registry, which allows storing arbitrary relationships. These relationships can reflect the personal view of one linguist or a larger community. The basis of the registry is a relation type taxonomy that can easily be extended. This allows on one hand to load existing sets of relations specified in, for example, an OWL (2) ontology or SKOS taxonomy. And on the other hand allows algorithms that query the registry to traverse the stored semantic network to remain ignorant of the original source vocabulary. This paper describes first experiences with RELcat and explains some initial design decisions.
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L12-1568
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
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2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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3661–3664
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/954_Paper.pdf
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Menzo Windhouwer. 2012. RELcat: a Relation Registry for ISOcat data categories. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 3661–3664, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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RELcat: a Relation Registry for ISOcat data categories (Windhouwer, LREC 2012)
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