Towards Corpus-Based Population and Visualization of ISO 24617-8 Ontology (Short Paper)

Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Dariusz Czerski


Abstract
This paper presents an extension of the ISO 24617-8 ontology for discourse relations through the integration of corpus-based examples and the development of a dedicated Ontology Viewer. The goal is to bridge the gap between formal ontological representations and practical corpus-based linguistic analysis, making discourse annotation frameworks more accessible to researchers. The proposed approach introduces a method for populating the ISO ontology with instances derived from three corpora (in Polish and English) compliant with the ISO 24617-8 standard. These instances formally connect discourse relations, argument roles, and explicit connectives within a unified semantic model. The Ontology Viewer enables intuitive browsing, filtering, and full-text searching of examples by language, relation type, and connective, offering both a relation-oriented and connective-oriented perspective. The experiment demonstrates the feasibility and effectiveness of this corpus-driven instantiation method and its visualization. The system provides a foundation for future integration of multilingual discourse corpora and contributes to the development of interoperable language resources for the Semantic Web and Natural Language Processing applications.
Anthology ID:
2026.isa-1.6
Volume:
Proceedings of the 22nd Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation and Representation (ISA-22) @ LREC 2026
Month:
May
Year:
2026
Address:
Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
Editor:
Harry Bunt
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ISA | WS
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Publisher:
ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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Pages:
54–61
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External URL:
https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-ws-isa-06
DOI:
10.63317/2rnd2m8mdomd
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Maciej Ogrodniczuk and Dariusz Czerski. 2026. Towards Corpus-Based Population and Visualization of ISO 24617-8 Ontology (Short Paper). In Proceedings of the 22nd Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation and Representation (ISA-22) @ LREC 2026, pages 54–61, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Towards Corpus-Based Population and Visualization of ISO 24617-8 Ontology (Short Paper) (Ogrodniczuk & Czerski, ISA 2026)
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