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D. Victoria Rau, Wheaton College, U.S.A. Meng-Chien Yang, Providence University, Taiwan

An integrated approach to online dictionary and ontology building for Austronesian Languages in Taiwan. D. Victoria Rau, Wheaton College, U.S.A. Meng-Chien Yang, Providence University, Taiwan Hui-Huan Ann Chang, Providence University, Taiwan

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D. Victoria Rau, Wheaton College, U.S.A. Meng-Chien Yang, Providence University, Taiwan

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  1. An integrated approach to online dictionary and ontology building for Austronesian Languages in Taiwan D. Victoria Rau, Wheaton College, U.S.A. Meng-Chien Yang, Providence University, Taiwan Hui-Huan Ann Chang, Providence University, Taiwan Maa-Neu Dong, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Taiwan

  2. Outline • Introduction • A Trinitarian Model • Online Dictionaries • Yami Fish Ontology • Conclusion

  3. 1. Introduction • Yami corpora Yami language archive http://yamiproject.cs.pu.edu.tw/yami Yami e-Learning http://yamiproject.cs.pu.edu.tw/elearn • Indigenous language revitalization a “trinitarian” model

  4. 2. The Trinitarian Model

  5. 3. Online dictionaries • Three versions of Yami online dictionaries 1.Digital Archiving Yami Language Documentation (funded by SOAS) http://yamiproject.cs.pu.edu.tw/yami/database.htm 2.Yami Language Archiving(funded by the SOAS) http://yamiproject.cs.pu.edu.tw/elearn/search.php 3.Yami Learning Dictionary (funded by the CIP) (1) Lexique Pro software version (2) The participatory Wiki dictionary http://yamibow.cs.pu.edu.tw

  6. Digital Archiving Yami Language Documentation • Keyword search from the texts gathered for digital archiving Yami language documentation

  7. Yami Language Archiving • A concise online Yami-Chinese-English dictionary

  8. Link Link Home Yami Learning Dictionary

  9. 3.1 The Lexique Pro software version • 1786 lexical entries • 780 roots • 1006 derivatives

  10. An English index

  11. An index organized by Chinese pinyin spelling

  12. An index organized by semantic categories

  13. 3.2 The Participatory Wiki dictionary • The structure of Web 2.0 style version dictionary

  14. The search page of the web 2.0 style dictionary-1

  15. The search page of the web 2.0 style dictionary-2

  16. 4. Yami Fish Ontology • 109 Yami fish with Chinese, English, and Latin name • Toolbox  Lexique Pro  Protégé • “Ontology 101 development process” by Noy and McGuinness (2001)

  17. 4.1 Yami Fish Names • Motivation • Finding the perspective and semantics of Yami fish names • Reinterpreting the fish classification of Yami • Constructing the indigenous knowledge of fish

  18. 4.2 Methodology • 7 steps of constructing the ontology from “Ontology 101 development process” by Noy and McGuinness (2001) • 7 steps: • Determine the domain and scope of the ontology • Consider reusing existing ontology • Enumerate important terms in the ontology • Define classes and the class hierarchy • & 6. Define the properties of classes and define the facets of the slots • Create instances

  19. (1) Determine the domain and scope of the ontology • Which fish are edible and inedible for Yami people? • Which gender can eat what kind of fish? • What kind of fish can be eaten by Yami elderly males? • What kind of fish can Yami pregnant women eat?

  20. (2) Consider reusing existing ontologies The Fish Database of Taiwan (http://fishdb.sinica.edu.tw/ ) (3) Enumerate important terms in the ontology (a) classification of Yami fish: anito “inedible fish”; types of edible fish: raet “fish for men”, oyod “fish for women”, kakanen no rarakeh “fish for old men”; (b) named Yami fish, such as ilek “rudderfish”, cilat “jackfish”; (c) Yami people: men, women, and old men; (d) women of three stages: not pregnant, pregnant, and breast feeding

  21. (4) Define classes and the class hierarchy • The classification of Yami fish

  22. (5) & (6) Define the properties of classes and slots and define the facets of the slots The datatype properties The object properties

  23. (7) Create instances (individuals) • An Example of a class editor

  24. OntoViz display for paloy fish

  25. An initial ontology of Yami fish

  26. 4.3 Yami fish ontology • Hierarchy of Yami fish onotology

  27. OWLViz Displaying the Inferred Hierarchy

  28. OWLViz Displaying the Asserted Hierarchy

  29. OWLViz Display for anito_Class and kakanen_no_rarakeh_Class

  30. OWLViz Display for rahet_Class and oyod_Class

  31. Ontology browser window generated by Protégé

  32. The OWL document generated for the Yami fish ontology • http://yamibow.cs.pu.edu.tw/fish_en/index.html

  33. 4.4 Limitations and future research (1) selection of a text on a semantic domain (2) reconstruction of the IK by building a network relationship of the semantic domain independently by both the linguist and the language activist to achieve high reliability (3) transformation of the final diagram of the network relationship into the Protégé.

  34. Analysis by Protégé of a text about taro planting

  35. 5. Conclusion • The trinitarian model of developing three Yami online dictionaries • A wiki dictionary • An ontology of Yami fish names, with the goal of building a collective knowledge system for the Yami language • Ongoing project 1. An online encyclopedia in Yami 2. The semantic infrastructure of the Yami language

  36. Ayoy! Thank you!

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