OntoLing Tab

The OntoLing Tab is a Protégé plug-in that allows for Linguistic Enrichment of Ontologies. It features functionalities for:

browsing linguistic resources (thesauri, dictionaries, wordnets...)
linguistically enriching ontologies with elements from these linguistic resources

New!!! Automatic Linguistic Enrichment of Ontologies (user is prompted with suggestions on how to perform enrichment)

building new ontologies, starting from existing linguistic resources

Access to any linguistic resource (LR) may be obtained through implementation of a proper wrapper, called Linguistic Interface, which is described by the abstract classes and interfaces contained in the LinguisticWatermark package.

Currently, two Linguistic Interfaces, being related to freely available linguistic resources, have been made available on this site.

an interface for WordNet, based on JWNL (Java Wordnet Library).
an interface for DICT dictionaries, based on JavaDICT.

Information on how to build linguistic interfaces may be found here (not yet available)

so, it is important that you carefully follow the available documentation and the installation instructions

** OntoLing 3.0beta for Protégé 3.x up to 3.3.1 (for Protégé versions 3.2 and above also read this note )

Get Full Pack Distribution Last updated: October 30, 2006

includes WordNet 2.0 and a lot of DICT bilingual dictionaries; (the Linguistic Watermark is already configured for the embedded resources)
note for UNIX users: the embedded WordNet 2.0 is the Windows version. Anyway, if you still prefer to have evertything already configured, download this version of OntoLing, then download WordNet for UNIX (up to 2.0) and put its content in place of the old one in <ProtegeRootDirectory>/plugins/it.uniroma2.info.ai-nlp.ontoling/WordnetInterface/Wordnet_2.0 directory

Get Normal Distribution Last updated: October 30, 2006

(requires download of linguistic resources and their configuration)

Get source code Last updated: October 30, 2006

note on installation for versions of Protege 3.2 and above:

Protégé 3.2 (not the beta!) and 3.2.1 use Jena version 2.4, which is not compatible with the library for automatic linguistic enrichment bundled with OntoLing 3.0beta.
in order to have the Automatic Linguistic Enrichment feature of OntoLing work with these versions of Protégé:

use the above version of OntoLing 3.0beta (either full pack or normal, depending on your choice)

download ale.zip, extract the ale.jar file from inside the archive and copy it to directory plugins/it.uniroma2.info.ai-nlp.ontoling
delete ontling_enrich.jar (older version of ale.jar) from the same directory

** Available Linguistic Interfaces

Get a look here to check which Linguistic Interfaces are available for OntoLing. You don't need to download the linguistic interfaces, they are already packed with OntoLing distributions, but you may want to learn how to configure each specific interface for loading its associated linguistic resource(s).