The Protégé Ontoling Plugin - Linguistic Enrichment of Ontologies in the Semantic Web

This paper presents our approach in establishing a framework for semi-automatic linguistic enrichment of ontologies. This effort has been pursued through the definition and implementation of a set of general purpose API for accessing a wide variety of linguistic resources and through the development of Ontoling, a plug-in for the popular ontology development tool Protege, which allows for browsing of different linguistic resources and for using their information to enrich the formal content of ontologies. We describe here the features and design aspects which characterize its current release