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أكاديمية الحكومة اإللكترونية الفلسطينيةThe Palestinian eGovernment Academy

www.egovacademy.ps

Tutorial 4: Ontology Engineering & Lexical Semantics

Outline and Motivation

Prof. Mustafa Jarrar

Sina Institute, University of Birzeit

mjarrar@birzeit.edu

www.jarrar.info

Reviewed by

Prof. Christophe Roche, University of Savoy, France

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This tutorial is part of the PalGov project, funded by the TEMPUS IV program of the

Commission of the European Communities, grant agreement 511159-TEMPUS-1-

2010-1-PS-TEMPUS-JPHES. The project website: www.egovacademy.ps

University of Trento, Italy

University of Namur, Belgium

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

TrueTrust, UK

Birzeit University, Palestine

(Coordinator )

Palestine Polytechnic University, Palestine

Palestine Technical University, PalestineUniversité de Savoie, France

Ministry of Local Government, Palestine

Ministry of Telecom and IT, Palestine

Ministry of Interior, Palestine

Project Consortium:

Coordinator:

Dr. Mustafa Jarrar

Birzeit University, P.O.Box 14- Birzeit, Palestine

Telfax:+972 2 2982935 mjarrar@birzeit.edu

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Tutorial Outlines and ILOsOntology Engineering & Lexical Semantics

Intended Learning ObjectivesA: Knowledge and Understanding

4a1: Demonstrate knowledge of what is an ontology,

how it is built, and what it is used for.

4a2: Demonstrate knowledge of ontology engineering

and evaluation.

4a3: Describe the difference between an ontology and a

schema, and an ontology and a dictionary.

4a4: Explain the concept of language ontologies, lexical

semantics and multilingualism.

B: Intellectual Skills

4b1: Develop quality ontologies.

4b2: Tackle ontology engineering challenges.

4b3: Develop multilingual ontologies.

4b4: Formulate quality glosses.

C: Professional and Practical Skills

4c1: Use ontology tools.

4c2: (Re)use existing Language ontologies.

D: General and Transferable Skills

d1: Working with team.

d2: Presenting and defending ideas.

d3: Use of creativity and innovation in problem solving.

d4: Develop communication skills and logical reasoning

abilities.

Ontology: Build and engineer ontologies with good quality.

Integration: Ability to integration and fuse data using

(de/)centralized manners

Lexical: Engineer multilingual knowledge and its lexical semantics

Service Integration: Ability to integration services using

(de/)centralized manners

Entity: Resolve and manage entity identities.

Database: Describe database schemes at the conceptual level.

Database: Build data dictionaries and describe data semantics.

Process Modeling: Identify, model, and re-engineer business

processes.

General Skills (eGov Engineer)

Prerequisites: Tutorial-1, Tutorial-2, Tutorial-3

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Tutorial Outlines and ILOsOntology Engineering & Lexical Semantics

Topic Time

Session 1_1: The Need for Sharing Semantics 1.5

Session 1_2: What is an ontology 1.5

Session 2: Lab- Build a Population Ontology 3

Session 3: Lab- Build a BankCustomer Ontology 3

Session 4: Lab- Build a BankCustomer Ontology 3

Session 5: Lab- Ontology Tools 3

Session 6_1: Ontology Engineering Challenges 1.5

Session 6_2: Ontology Double Articulation 1.5

Session 7: Lab - Build a Legal-Person Ontology 3

Session 8_1: Ontology Modeling Challenges 1.5

Session 8_2: Stepwise Methodologies 1.5

Session 9: Lab - Build a Legal-Person Ontology 3

Session 10: Zinnar – The Palestinian eGovernmentInteroperability Framework

3

Session 11: Lab- Using Zinnar in web services 3

Session 12_1: Lexical Semantics and Multilingually 1.5

Session 12_2: WordNets 1.5

Session 13: ArabicOntology 3

Session 14: Lab-Using Linguistic Ontologies 3

Session 15: Lab-Using Linguistic Ontologies 3

Intended Learning ObjectivesA: Knowledge and Understanding

4a1: Demonstrate knowledge of what is an ontology,

how it is built, and what it is used for.

4a2: Demonstrate knowledge of ontology engineering

and evaluation.

4a3: Describe the difference between an ontology and a

schema, and an ontology and a dictionary.

4a4: Explain the concept of language ontologies, lexical

semantics and multilingualism.

B: Intellectual Skills

4b1: Develop quality ontologies.

4b2: Tackle ontology engineering challenges.

4b3: Develop multilingual ontologies.

4b4: Formulate quality glosses.

C: Professional and Practical Skills

4c1: Use ontology tools.

4c2: (Re)use existing Language ontologies.

D: General and Transferable Skills

d1: Working with team.

d2: Presenting and defending ideas.

d3: Use of creativity and innovation in problem solving.

d4: Develop communication skills and logical reasoning

abilities.

Prerequisites: Tutorial-1, Tutorial-2, Session 11-12 depends on (Session 5-9 in Tutorial 3)

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Zinnar – The Palestinian Interoperability Framework

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Zinnar – The Palestinian Interoperability Framework

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Zinnar – Palestinian Government Ontology

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Zinnar – Palestinian Government Ontology Legal-Person Module