WP2 - Grammar developers tools

WP2: Grammar developers tools

The grammar developers tools promise to enable quick development of a new domain and language. This promise is best tested directly by measuring the time and expertise taken

1. to create or extend an ontology to a new domain using MOLTO tools
2. to generate an abstract grammar for a domain from an ontology for it
3. to create or extend the concrete grammar for a language to a new domain
4. to extend the vocabulary for a language to cover a new or extended domain

The measures are taken for a system with a coverage in the order of a) 100 concepts b) 1000 concepts. The platforms used in carrying out the tests include the multilingual semantic wiki (tasks 1 and 2), the TermFactory? platform (tasks 1 and 4) and the grammar editing tools (tasks 2,3,4). To test these claims, we need to fix one or more domains to create/extend. We haven't got a great many domains to choose from yet. We would do well to extend in the direction of known 'good' ontologies.

1. phrasebook < travel ontologies, e.g. http://sites.google.com/site/ontotravelguides/Home/ontologies
2. museum/painting < music ontology, http://musicontology.com/
3. patents/pharmaceutics < chemical safety data sheets + chemical ontologies e.g. CheBI? , ChemINF?

Baseline evaluation figures prior to the use of MOLTO tools for a domain of smaller size were obtained in the phrasebook exercise reported in Ranta et al.2010 [9]. For comparability, the same criteria and measures are to be applied in subsequent evaluations.