@inproceedings{stankovic-etal-2024-towards,
    title = "Towards Semantic Interoperability: Parallel Corpora as Linked Data Incorporating Named Entity Linking",
    author = "Stankovi{\'c}, Ranka  and
      Ikoni{\'c} Ne{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Milica  and
      Perisic, Olja  and
      {\v{S}}kori{\'c}, Mihailo  and
      Kitanovi{\'c}, Olivera",
    editor = "Chiarcos, Christian  and
      Gkirtzou, Katerina  and
      Ionov, Maxim  and
      Khan, Fahad  and
      McCrae, John P.  and
      Ponsoda, Elena Montiel  and
      Chozas, Patricia Mart{\'\i}n",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics @ LREC-COLING 2024",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.ldl-1.15",
    pages = "115--125",
    abstract = "The paper presents the results of the research related to the preparation of parallel corpora, focusing on transformation into RDF graphs using NLP Interchange Format (NIF) for linguistic annotation. We give an overview of the parallel corpus that was used in this case study, as well as the process of POS tagging, lemmatization, named entity recognition (NER), and named entity linking (NEL), which is implemented using Wikidata. In the first phase of NEL main characters and places mentioned in novels are stored in Wikidata and in the second phase they are linked with the occurrences of previously annotated entities in text. Next, we describe the named entity linking (NEL), data conversion to RDF, and incorporation of NIF annotations. Produced NIF files were evaluated through the exploration of triplestore using SPARQL queries. Finally, the bridging of Linked Data and Digital Humanities research is discussed, as well as some drawbacks related to the verbosity of transformation. Semantic interoperability concept in the context of linked data and parallel corpora ensures that data exchanged between systems carries shared and well-defined meanings, enabling effective communication and understanding.",
}

The paper presents the results of the research related to the preparation of parallel corpora, focusing on transformation into RDF graphs using NLP Interchange Format (NIF) for linguistic annotation. We give an overview of the parallel corpus that was used in this case study, as well as the process of POS tagging, lemmatization, named entity recognition (NER), and named entity linking (NEL), which is implemented using Wikidata. In the first phase of NEL main characters and places mentioned in novels are stored in Wikidata and in the second phase they are linked with the occurrences of previously annotated entities in text. Next, we describe the named entity linking (NEL), data conversion to RDF, and incorporation of NIF annotations. Produced NIF files were evaluated through the exploration of triplestore using SPARQL queries. Finally, the bridging of Linked Data and Digital Humanities research is discussed, as well as some drawbacks related to the verbosity of transformation. Semantic interoperability concept in the context of linked data and parallel corpora ensures that data exchanged between systems carries shared and well-defined meanings, enabling effective communication and understanding.
Stankovi{\'c}, Ranka Ikoni{\'c} Ne{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Milica Perisic, Olja {\v{S}}kori{\'c}, Mihailo Kitanovi{\'c}, Olivera
Towards Semantic Interoperability: Parallel Corpora as Linked Data Incorporating Named Entity Linking