An Ontology for Accessing Transcription Systems (OATS)

TitleAn Ontology for Accessing Transcription Systems (OATS)
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2009
AuthorsMoran, S.
BooktitleProceedings of the First Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages (AfLaT 2009)
DateMarch
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics
LocationAthens, Greece
EditorDe Pauw, Guy, de Schryver Gilles-Maurice, and Levin Lori
Abstract

This paper presents the Ontology for Accessing Transcription Systems (OATS), a knowledge base that supports interoperation over disparate transcription systems and practical orthographies. The knowledge base includes an ontological description of writing systems and relations for mapping transcription system segments to an interlingua pivot, the IPA. It includes orthographic and phonemic inventories from 203 African languages. OATS is motivated by the desire to query data in the knowledge base via IPA or native orthography, and for error checking of digitized data and conversion between transcription systems. The model in this paper implements these goals.

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