Mapping Dutch Cultural Heritage Thesauri to WordNet: two case studies

A poster presentation written by Hennie Brugman, Luit Gazendam, Véronique Malaisé, Antoine Isaac and Guus Schreiber. It was presented at the ESWC2007. It is about Thesaurus, Cultural Heritage collections, Vocabulary mapping, Anchoring and WordNet

[edit] Abstract

In this paper, we argue on the interest of anchoring Dutch Cultural Heritage-specific controlled vocabularies to WordNet and demonstrate a reusable methodology for achieving this mapping. We test it on two controlled vocabularies, namely the GTAA thesaurus, used at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (the Dutch radio and television archives), and the GTT thesaurus, used to index books of the Dutch National Library. We evaluate the two anchorings in terms of number of successful equivalents found and in terms of a concrete use case: we demonstrate how such a mapping can be successfully used in generic alignment scenarios, where concepts from one thesaurus must be aligned to concepts from another vocabulary.

This data has been imported from the ESWC2007 RDF