Online Dictionary and Ontology Building for Austronesian Languages in Taiwan

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorRau, D. Victoria
dc.contributor.authorYang, Meng-Chien
dc.contributor.authorChang, Hui-Huan Ann
dc.contributor.authorDong, Maa-Neu
dc.date.accessioned2009-12-24T14:24:00Z
dc.date.available2009-12-24T14:24:00Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractThis paper provides a model of language documentation and conservation in Taiwan to illustrate how online dictionaries have been produced by a collaborative team, and how technology has been used in the process to create a formalized model of existing indigenous knowledge. Our interactions with the Yami community over the past decade have led us to believe that a cooperation framework involving three groups of experts provides necessary “scaffolding” before an “egalitarian” wiki style of online dictionary or ontology building can be attempted. In addition, ontology building requires triangulation of various sources of human interpretations. It is not possible to build an ontology only based on sophisticated machine reasoning. We hope this model of collaboration can serve as a feasible model for other projects in language revitalization and capacity building in the future.
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.format.extent21 pages
dc.identifier.citationRau, D. Victoria, Meng-Chien Yang, Hui-Huan Ann Chang, and Maa-Neu Dong. 2009. Online Dictionary and Ontology Building for Austronesian Languages in Taiwan. Language Documentation & Conservation 3(2):192-212.
dc.identifier.issn1934-5275
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/4439
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawai'i Press
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License
dc.subjectonline dictionary
dc.subjectontology
dc.subjectAustronesian
dc.subjectTaiwan
dc.titleOnline Dictionary and Ontology Building for Austronesian Languages in Taiwan
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.dcmiText
prism.endingpage212
prism.number2
prism.publicationnameLanguage Documentation & Conservation
prism.startingpage192
prism.volume3

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
rau09.pdf
Size:
2.54 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
145 B
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download

Collections

Volume 03 Issue 2 : Language Documentation & Conservation