Language resources in the semantic Web vision

Computational lexicons undoubtedly form an essential component to make the vision of the semantic Web a reality. In the semantic Web scenario, ontologies are the key components to manage knowledge, whereas, in human language technology (HLT), semantic description is committed to computational lexicons, which have to address the complexity of natural language. Semantic content processing lies at the heart of the semantic Web vision. Semantic Web developers will therefore need very large repositories of words and terms -and knowledge about their relations. The cost of adding this structured and machine-understandable lexical information is one of the factors that delays semantic Web full deployment. A natural convergence thus exists between some of the core activities in the field of HLT and the semantic Web long-term goals.