WP8 Case study: cultural heritage - M18

Summary of progress

Dana Dannels from the Linguistics Department of UGOT and Mariana from Ontotext have had a skype meeting every month to summarize what has been accomplished by WP8 and WP4 and to coordinate the work on tasks. Dana mainly worked with Ramona Enache, a GF expert, to share ideas and discuss the work in progress.

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Significant results

• Empirical study of existing metadata schemata adopted by museums in Sweden resulted in the creation of an ad-hoc ontology supporting compatibility to a variety of CH data schemata
• Study of syntactic structures and patterns for discourse generation
• The well known standard CIDOC-CRM has been implemented in GF.
• The application specific ontology that uses ontology standards was implemented in GF.
• The grammar implementation of the ontologies has been tested for verbalizing the ontology axioms.

We have developed a prototype for generating natural language descriptions using discourse patterns in English and Swedish, and two scientific paper about our work; both have been per reviewed. One was presented in a WWW conference and one in a CH workshop.