SIMPLE-OWL: a Generative Lexicon Ontology for NLP and the Semantic Web

This research deals with the modelling of a Generative Lexicon based ontology to be used in the Semantic Web and Natural Language Processing semantic tasks. This ontology is imported from a existing computational Lexical Resource and is converted to the W3C standard Web Ontology Language. This presents some challenges, as for example the multidimensionality of the original ontology, which are covered in the current paper. The result of this research is an OWL compliant semantically rich and linguistically-based ontology, thus useful to the automatic processing of text within the Semantic Web paradigm.