Developing International Standards of Language Resources for Semantic Web Applications - Research Report of the International Joint Research Program NEDO

This report describes a three-year project aiming at an international standard for language resources that includes Asian languages. We summarise our contribution to an international standard of lexical markup framework (LMF) and introduce a prototype query expansion system using LMF-compliant lexical resources. Since ISO 24613 was in the FDIS stage and fairly stable, we built sample lexicons in Chinese, English, Italian, Japanese, and Thai based on ISO24613. At the same time, we implemented a query expansion system utilising rich linguistic resources including lexicons described in the ISO 24613 framework. We confirmed that a system was feasible which worked on the tested languages (including both Western and Eastern languages) when given lexicons are compliant with the framework.