Speeding Up Multilingual Grammar Development by Exploiting Linked Data to Generate Pre-terminal Rules

The development of grammars, e.g. for spoken dialog systems, is a time- and effort-intensive process. Especially the crafting of rules that list all relevant instances of a non-terminal, e.g. Greek cities or Automobile companies, possibly in multiple languages, is costly. In order to automatize and speed up the generation of multilingual terminal lists, we present a tool that uses linked data sources such as DBpedia in order to retrieve all entities that satisfy a relevant semantic restriction. We briefly describe the architecture of the system and explain how it can be used by means of an online web service.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Semantic Computing Group, CITEC, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

   Sebastian Walter, Christina Unger & Philipp Cimiano

Editors and Affiliations

1. Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Computer Science,, 2 rue Conté, 75003, Paris, France

   Elisabeth Métais

2. Cirad, TETIS, 500 rue J.F. Breton, 34093, Montpellier Cedex 5, France

   Mathieu Roche

3. Irstea, TETIS, 500 rue J.F. Breton, 34093, Montpellier Cedex 5, France

   Maguelonne Teisseire

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