| Title |
BDCon: A Spanish knowledge database |
| Authors |
Adán Cassán (Department of Computational Linguistics, Planeta Actimedia C/ Aribau, 198, 5ª planta, 08036, Barcelona, Spain) Sergi Cervell (Department of Computational Linguistics, Planeta Actimedia C/ Aribau, 198, 5ª planta, 08036, Barcelona, Spain) Mireia Colom (Department of Computational Linguistics, Planeta Actimedia C/ Aribau, 198, 5ª planta, 08036, Barcelona, Spain) Rafael Marín (Department of Computational Linguistics, Planeta Actimedia C/ Aribau, 198, 5ª planta, 08036, Barcelona, Spain) Josep M. Merenciano (Department of Computational Linguistics, Planeta Actimedia C/ Aribau, 198, 5ª planta, 08036, Barcelona, Spain) Gema Pérez (Department of Computational Linguistics, Planeta Actimedia C/ Aribau, 198, 5ª planta, 08036, Barcelona, Spain) Lluís Valentín (Department of Computational Linguistics, Planeta Actimedia C/ Aribau, 198, 5ª planta, 08036, Barcelona, Spain) |
| Session |
WO10: Ontologies |
| Abstract |
In this paper we describe a knowledge base that has been built using the partially structured knowledge from encyclopaedias. The BDCon (from the Spanish: Base de Datos de Conocimiento) is a general ontology built around an extended Spanish lexicon extracted from two encyclopaedias and a cartographic database. It is composed by a number of interconnected knowledge structures, each of them covering a different aspect of world knowledge. The purpose of the BDCon is to classify the contents of various reference works publishing companies, as well as to support a set of advanced linguistic tools. |
| Keywords |
Databases |
| Full Paper |