Guadalupe Aguado de Cea

• PhD
• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Terminologies in the biomedical field are one of the main resources used in the clinical practice. Keeping them up-to-date to meet real-world use cases is a critical operation that even in the case of well maintained terminologies such as SNOMED-CT involves much effort from domain experts. Pharmacological products or drugs are constantly being appr...

Named Entity Recognition (NER) poses new challenges in real-world documents in which there are entities with different roles according to their purpose or meaning. Retrieving all the possible entities in scenarios in which only a subset of them based on their role is needed, produces noise on the overall precision. This work proposes a NER model th...

In information science, ontologies are used to capture knowledge about some domain of interest, by formally naming and defining the types, properties and interrelationships of the concepts that describe that domain. They are the building blocks of the Linked Data initiative in which datasets of related domains are linked to each other, and also to...

Terminesp is a multilingual terminological resource with terms from a range of specialized domains. Along with definitions, notes, scientific denominations and provenance information, it includes translations from Spanish into a variety of languages. A linked data resource with these features would represent a potentially relevant source of knowled...

Linked Data technologies and methods are enabling the creation of a data network where pieces of data are interconnected on the Web using machine-readable formats such as Resource Description Framework (RDF). This paradigm offers great opportunities to connect and make available knowledge in different languages. However, in order to make this visio...

There is a growing awareness of the significance and value that modelling using information technology can bring to the functionally oriented linguistic enterprise. This encompasses a spectrum of areas as diverse as concept modelling, language processing and grammar modelling, conversational agents, and the visualisation of complex linguistic infor...

La terminología parece haber pasado de ser una actividad casi artesanal, con aquellas fichas de cartulina elaboradas y archivadas meticulosamente de forma manual, a ser una auténtica tecnología puntera que se beneficia de todos los avances digitales en la actualidad, por lo que hemos visto multiplicadas sus posibilidades.

In this article, we argue that there is a growing number of linked datasets in different natural languages, and that there is a need for guidelines and mechanisms to ensure the quality and organic growth of this emerging multilingual data network. However, we have little knowledge regarding the actual state of this data network, its current practic...

Although with the Semantic Web initiative much research on web pages semantic annotation has already done by AI researchers, linguistic text annotation, including the semantic one, was originally developed in Corpus Linguistics and its results have been somehow neglected by AI. ...

This paper addresses the lack of an explicitly agreed and defined terminology in the ontology engineering field, and particularly, the need for a glossary, which consists of terms and definitions for actions when developing ontologies. The novelty of this paper lies in the precise description of a methodology for building a glossary with the proces...

Lexica and terminology databases play a vital role in many NLP applications, but currently most such resources are published in application-specific formats, or with custom access interfaces, leading to the problem that much of this data is in “data silos” and hence difficult to access. The Semantic Web and in particular the Linked Data initiative...

This paper aims to describe the development of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) as specialised language study and research at tertiary level in Spain over the past twenty years. The year 1992 is chosen as a starting point because AELFE, the Association of Languages for Specific Purposes, was founded in Madrid at the time. As more members from ot...

This paper presents a model for linguistic/terminological information, which can be used in tandem with an ontological model, in order to link lexicalizations and concepts. The main aim of the proposed model is to provide multilingual information to ontologies. Interoperability with existing standard models of terminological description as well as...

Interoperability on multiple levels, concerning both the ontologies themselves and their engineering activities, is a key requirement for ontology networks to be efficient, with minimal redundancy and high reuse. This requirement has a strict binding for software tools that can support some interoperability levels, yet they can be hindered by a lac...

Multilinguality in ontologies has become an impending need for institutions worldwide that have to deal with data and linguistic resources in different natural languages. Since most ontologies are developed in one language, obtaining multilingual ontologies implies to localize or adapt them to a concrete language and culture community. As the adapt...

Ontologies and taxonomies are widely used to organize concepts providing the basis for activities such as indexing, and as background knowledge for NLP tasks. As such, translation of these resources would prove useful to adapt these systems to new languages. However, we show that the nature of these resources is significantly different from the "fr...

The present collection of articles represents research efforts in the field of specialised languages, including the analysis of research articles in disciplines as diverse as Biomedicine and Computing, on the one hand, and overlapping disciplines such as in Social Sciences, on the other, all with high relevance to English for Academic Purposes, and...

The need for interoperability among geospatial resources in different natural languages evidences the difficulties to cope with domain representations highly dependent of the culture in which they have been conceived. In this paper we characterize the problem of representing cultural discrepancies in ontologies. We argue that such differences can b...

Recently, computational linguists have shown great interest in discourse annotation in an attempt to capture the internal relations in texts. With this aim, we have formalized the linguistic knowledge associated to discourse into different linguistic ontologies. In this paper, we present the most prominent discourse-related terms and concepts inclu...

In this paper we describe how linguistic patterns can contribute to ontology development by enabling an easier reuse of some ontological resources. In particular, our research focuses on the reuse of ontology design patterns and ontology statements by relying on linguistic constructs at different stages of the reuse process. With this aim, we propo...

Enriching linguistic resources with domain information has been considered one important target in natural language applications. This domain information can be undoubtedly provided by subject specific definitions. However, definition extraction of this domain information from specialized resources has revealed certain methodological problems in de...

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the research on linguistic patterns focusing on the subclassOf relation for the semi-automatic construction of ontologies. Taking as a starting point those ontological structures corresponding to consensual modelling solutions, which are known as Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs), we identified the linguistic...

Untrained users in the development of ontologies are challenged by the formal representation languages that underlie the most common ontology editing tools. To reduce that barrier, many efforts have gone in the creation of Controlled Languages (CL) translatable into ontology structures. However, CLs fall short of addressing a more profound problem:...

Hoy en día Internet es la principal fuente de información. Es inmensa la cantidad de documentos accesibles en lo que se conoce como la World Wide Web (WWW) o, simplemente, la web o la red. ...

La terminología entendida como la descripción y la organización de los conceptos de un dominio de conocimiento, las relaciones entre los conceptos y los términos o las definiciones que denotan esos conceptos están presentes en diferentes ámbitos. ...

Experiments in the reuse of Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) have revealed that users with different levels of expertise in ontology modelling face difficulties when reusing ODPs. With the aim of tackling this problem we propose a method and a tool for supporting a semi-automatic reuse of ODPs that takes as input formulations in natural language (NL...

an impending need for institutions worldwide with valuable linguistic resources in different natural languages. Since most ontologies are developed in one language, obtaining multilingual ontologies implies to localize or adapt them to a concrete language and culture community. As the adaptation of the ontology conceptualization demands considerabl...

Automatic tagging in Spanish has historically faced many problems because of some specific grammatical constructions. One of these traditional pitfalls is the ‘se’ particle. This particle is a multifunctional and polysemous word used in many different contexts. Many taggers do not distinguish the possible uses of ‘se’ and thus provide poor results...

This project aims at creating a network of distributed interoperable semantic services for building more complex ones. These services will be available in semantic Web service libraries, so that they can be invoked by other systems (e.g., semantic portals, software agents, etc.). Thus, to accomplish this objective, the project proposes: a) To creat...

En esta comunicación se presenta una aplicación, Calíope (Barahona 2006), diseñada con el objetivo de proporcionar a alumnos que estudian informática no sólo una forma de aprender el uso de los términos en contexto, sino también de ver las relaciones sintácticas y léxico-semánticas que se establecen entre ellos. Siguiendo los enfoques actuales en t...

Entre las ciencias y técnicas que mayor número de neologismos y fraseologías especializada han aportado a la lengua española, en la segunda mitad del s.XX y en los principios del s.XXI, están las "tecnologías de la información y la comunicación" (TIC), que se han desarrollado gracias a los avances de la informática, como son el correo electrónico,...

The main purpose of Reflections on Language Use in the Academic Context is to present an interdisciplinary view of LSP both from theoretical and practical points of view. The different authors offer complementary frameworks –socio-pragmatic, cognitive, semantic, terminological, and computational- for the study of the nature of academic discourse, a...

Following the road in-between purely linguistic annotation and solely ontology-based annotations for the semantic Web, a hybrid (ontological and linguistic) model and platform, called OntoTag, has been created, aiming at better machine communication, interoperability and language understanding; these capabilities are derived from the incorporation...

A instancias de lo que se ha dado en llamar la Web Semántica, la Inteligencia Artificial ha investigado exhaustivamente la anotación semántica de páginas web. La anotación (semántica) de textos se desarrolló primeramente en la Lingüística de Corpus; sin embargo, la Inteligencia Artificial, al centrarse en una anotación basada en ontologías, parece...

A instancias de lo que se ha dado en llamar la Web Semántica, la Inteligencia Artificial ha investigado exhaustivamente la anotación semántica de páginas web. La anotación (semántica) de textos se desarrolló primeramente en la Lingüística de Corpus; sin embargo, la Inteligencia Artificial, al centrarse en una anotación basada en ontologías, parece...

El progreso de la informática y las telecomunicaciones que ha tenido lugar a fines del siglo XX ha cambiado el concepto de "traducción técnica" en el ámbito de estas especialidades. ...

Although with the Semantic Web initiative much research on web page semantic annotation has already been done by AI researchers, linguistic text annotation, including the semantic one, was originally developed in Corpus Linguistics and its results have been somehow neglected by AI. The purpose of the research presented in this proposal is to prove...

Although with the Semantic Web initiative much research on web page semantic annotation has already been done by AI researchers, linguistic text annotation, including the semantic one, was originally developed in Corpus Linguistics and its results have been somehow neglected by AI. The purpose of the research presented in this proposal is to prove...

One of the main difficulties in building NLG systems is to produce a good requirement specification. --

Los estudios sobre lenguas aplicadas tienen su origen en las necesidades planteadas por los profesores de lenguas a profesionales no angloparlantes de los distintos campos del mundo laboral y de la ciencia. A la vista de las características de las lenguas para fines específicos, en adelante LFE, los profesores vieron la necesidad de una nueva metod...

Una de las dificultades de la construcción de sistemas de GLN es la especificación de requisitos. Una forma de abordar este problema es usar un corpus para mostrar al cliente el sistema que se pretende construir. En este artículo se describe un método para elaborar ese corpus y se explica cómo se ha utilizado en un proyecto concreto. Este método co...

Although Fuzzy Logic has been used in Machine Translation in many ways, few applications include some kind of fuzzy syntactic modlue within. ---

A significant problem facing the reuse of ontologies is to make their content more widely accessible to any potential user. Wording all the information represented in an ontology is the best way to ease the retrieval and understanding of its contents. This article proposes a general approach to reuse domain and linguistic ontologies with natural la...

Durante mucho tiempo, uno de los problemas con que se ha encontrado el usuario informático no angloparlante ha sido con la dificultad de comprender el software que tenía que utilzar en su trabajo debido a que todos los programas estaban escritos en inglés, lengua en la que, como es sabido, se ha desarrollado la informática. ...

Resulta obvio que no puede entenderse en estas líneas más que el esbozo de algunas de las cuestiones fundamentales del tema y no un estudio in extenso, tarea que, por otra parte, han realizado ya investigadores de gran autoridad en la materia, como la propia Profesora Cabré, coordinadora de estos estudios. ...

De todos es conocido que el vocabulario de las disciplinas cientificas y técnicas se desarrolla, en general, de forma caótica. ...

This deliverable aims at the provision of multilingual support for ontology development in terms of representation of multilingual information. The main contributions included in this document are: an overview of methods, techniques and tools used for the localizing process of some lexical and ontological resources; an analysis of the different wa...

Following the road in-between purely linguistic annotation and solely ontology-based annotations for the Semantic Web, a hybrid (ontological and linguistic) model and platform, called OntoTag, has been created, aiming at better machine communication, interoperability and language understanding. These capabilities, which are the main topic of this p...

Una de las dificultades de la construcción de sistemas de GLN es la especificación de requisitos. Una forma de abordar este problema es usar un corpus para mostrar al cliente el sistema que se pretende construir. En este artículo se describe un método para elaborar ese corpus y se explica cómo se ha utilizado en un proyecto concreto. Este método co...

La necesidad de dotar de multilingualidad a sistemas basados en el conocimiento plantea un nuevo reto a la investigación en Inteligencia Artificial. La mayoría de las estrategias adoptadas en la actualidad para la representación de multilingualidad en bases de conocimiento han optado por soluciones ad hoc. Partiendo, pues, de la inexistencia de pla...

Enriching linguistic resources with domain information has been considered one important target in natural language applications. However, automatic definition extraction of this domain information from specialized resources has revealed certain methodological problems in definition construction. This paper presents some problems encountered in aut...

This project aims at creating a network of distributed interoperable semantic services for building more complex ones. These services will be available in semantic Web service libraries, so that they can be invoked by other systems (e.g., semantic portals, software agents, etc.). Thus, to accomplish this objective, the project proposes: a) To creat...

In the field of Languages for Specific Purposes, phraseology plays a central role since its mastering is crucial for the different users that deal with specialized languages, from professionals of a domain to linguist experts (terminologists, translators, communication mediators, etc.). According to Aguado de Cea (2007), phraseology can be defined...

The decisive launching of the Semantic Web depends on two key factors: the design of sound methodologies for guiding users in the reuse of available knowledge resources that speed up the ontology development, and the suitability of those methodologies for an average user. In this paper we propose a method for the reuse of ontology design patterns a...

In this paper we aim at proposing metadata for expressing information about multilingual data in ontologies. Nowadays, and thanks to ontology metadata standards as the Ontology Metadata Vocabulary (OMV), ontology developers can have an effective access to all available ontological resources in the web. However, this metadata does not offer informat...

The way in which multilingual information is organized and presented, accounts for its usefulness or adequacy for a specific purpose. As globalization becomes more pervasive, people all over the world need to make use of information in different languages in their everyday work. Bilingual or multilingual dictionaries have been, and still are, relev...

Ontologies play a decisive role in the development of the Semantic Web, since they are able to model the knowledge of a specific domain in a machine readable way. However, the need to provide multilinguality to ontologies poses new challenges in the Ontology Engineering research. In this paper we attempt to offer an overview of available strategies...

Following the growing interest in Language and the Internet, this article tries to give a comprehensive overview of specialized phraseology and its multifaceted approches in relation with the Internet. --

The domain information sources does not usually contain linguistic knowledge that a natural language generation (NLG)systems requires to be able to produce texts. --

The goal of this project is to provide core technology for the semantic Web. Our aim is to develop an ontology-based platform for allowing users to query e-commerce applications by using natural language, performing the automatic information retrieval from web documents annotated with ontological and linguistic information. ...

En este trabajo se presenta Ontogeneration, una arquitectura para generar textos en castellano utilizando ontologías lingüísticas y de dominio con la tecnología KPML de generación de lenguaje natural. Además se ha construido un sistema que genera textos en castellano en el dominio de las sustancias químicas. Para alcanzar tales resultados, se han s...

As the Semantic Web and the Language Resources research fields become closer, the need for standard representation formats and languages gets clearer, specially taking into account the increasing need for cooperation and interoperability between both fields that is being set forth. The purpose of this paper is to present how this process of standar...

La aparición de nuevas técnicas, dispositivos o máquinas requiere, simultáneamente, la puesta en marcha de un proceso de denominación por científicos y técnicos. ...

Las palabras que componen cualquier vocabulario, consisguientemente el vocabulario técnico, deben tener entre sus características particulares la de la "univocidad", es decir que "para cada noción exista una sola denominación" (1). ...

El objetivo de esta comunicación es presentar el resultado del análisis de las características de una serie de textos procedentes de diversas fuentes, pero pertenecientes a un dominio de especialidad y con una finalidad común: presentar una película al público. El estudio de la relación entre texto y contenido informativo, y, más en concreto, entre...

Translatins studies is no longer limited to a purely linguistic approach. ...

En un proyecto de generación del lenguaje natural (GLN) la fuente de información del dominio no contiene normalmente los datos lingüísticos que el sistema necesita para poder generar los textos. ...

Following the road in-between purely linguistic annotation and solely ontology-based annotation for the Semantic Web, a hybrid (ontological and linguistic) model and platform, called OntoTag, has been created, aiming at better machine comunication, interoperability and language understanding: these capabilities are divided from the incorporation in...

Es generalmente reconocida la relación existente entre las lenguas para fines específicos, también denominadas "lenguas ed espacialidad" y la terminología ya que están presentes en los mismo ámbitos de comunicación, y participan del mismo conocimiento especializado. ...

En el ámbito de los textos de ingeniería civil existen diferentes géneros, con sus correspondientes características. Uno de esos tipos es el que se centra en la reglamentación técnica. ...

El estudio de las estructuras de clasificación que aquí presentamos responde al interés que la terminología tiene en las aplicaciones informáticas relacionadas con la Web semántica. ...

El término fraseología se puede entender, al menos, en dos sentidos: (a) la disciplina que estudia las unidades fraseológicas: y (b) el objeto de estudio de esta disciplina, esto es, las unidades fraseológicas. ...

In an electronic and cybernetic world, when one is faced with the task of devising different kinds of interaction among participants, it is worth reflecting that, out of the many and various activities which people engage in, there is one kind of activity which has been cultivated, practised and performed for thousands of years by all members of so...