The authors have recently developed a new approach to performing a Delphi study that
does not involve the use of sequential “rounds” and as a result, greatly improves the …

Arabic is the official language of hundreds of millions of people in twenty Middle East and
northern African countries, and is the religious language of all Muslims of various ethnicities …

We report on the current status of the Arabic WordNet project and in particular on the
contents of the database, the lexicographer and user interfaces, the Arabic WordNet …

“Ontology matching” is the process of finding correspondences between entities belonging
to different ontologies. This paper describes a set of algorithms that exploit upper ontologies …

This paper introduces a recently initiated project that focuses on building a lexical resource
for Modern Standard Arabic based on the widely used Princeton WordNet for English …

Momentum is gaining to develop a Semantic Web to allow people and machines to share
the meaning (semantics) of data and ultimately of applications. Key to the vision of a …

Arabic WordNet is a lexical resource for Modern Standard Arabic based on the widely used
Princeton WordNet for English (Fellbaum, 1998). Arabic WordNet (AWN) is based on the …

The relation between ontologies and language is currently at the forefront of natural
language processing (NLP). Ontologies, as widely used models in semantic technologies …

We outline work to be carried out within the framework of an impending EC project. The goal
is to construct a language-independent information system for a specific domain …

Deductive reasoning with natural language requires combining lexical resources with the
world knowledge provided by ontologies. In this paper we describe the connection of …