Language technology in knowledge-organization systems.

This paper describes the language technology methods developed in the Danish research project VID to extract from Danish text material relevant information for the population of knowledge organization systems (KOS) within specific corporate domains. The results achieved by applying these methods to a prototype search engine tuned to the patent and trademark domain indicate that the use of human language technology can support the construction of a linguistically based KOS and that linguistic information in search improves recall substantially without harming precision (near 90%). Finally, we describe two research experiments where (1) linguistic analysis of Danish compounds and is exploited to improve search atrategies on these (2) linguistic knowledge is used to model corporate knowledge into a language-based ontology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]