@inproceedings{vossen-etal-2008-kyoto,
    title = "{KYOTO}: a System for Mining, Structuring and Distributing Knowledge across Languages and Cultures",
    author = "Vossen, Piek  and
      Agirre, Eneko  and
      Calzolari, Nicoletta  and
      Fellbaum, Christiane  and
      Hsieh, Shu-kai  and
      Huang, Chu-Ren  and
      Isahara, Hitoshi  and
      Kanzaki, Kyoko  and
      Marchetti, Andrea  and
      Monachini, Monica  and
      Neri, Federico  and
      Raffaelli, Remo  and
      Rigau, German  and
      Tescon, Maurizio  and
      VanGent, Joop",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'08)",
    month = may,
    year = "2008",
    address = "Marrakech, Morocco",
    publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
    url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/373_paper.pdf",
    abstract = "We outline work performed within the framework of a current EC project. The goal is to construct a language-independent information system for a specific domain (environment/ecology/biodiversity) anchored in a language-independent ontology that is linked to wordnets in seven languages. For each language, information extraction and identification of lexicalized concepts with ontological entries is carried out by text miners (“Kybots”). The mapping of language-specific lexemes to the ontology allows for crosslinguistic identification and translation of equivalent terms. The infrastructure developed within this project enables long-range knowledge sharing and transfer across many languages and cultures, addressing the need for global and uniform transition of knowledge beyond the specific domains addressed here.",
}