User:Helioh2

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Name: Helio Henrique Lopes Costa Monte Alto

E-mail address: heliohenrique3@gmail.com

About me: I am a Computer Science student at Universidade Estadual de Maringá (Maringá State University), located in Maringá, Paraná, Brazil. I am in 4th year (the last year) of my course, and I do undergraduate research project. My research area is related to Intelligent Systems Development, with focus on multi-agent systems and ontologies. Currently, I’m focused on ontologies, which includes ontology languages, such as OWL and RDF.

I’m interested in machine translation because I think it is growing and increasingly needs to be improved. I imagine that, in a not too distant future, people with different native languages will not have trouble in communicating, thanks to translation technologies incorporated into personal devices.

I think an open source project aiming at building language tools is an amazing initiative. It allows the software to be continually improved by the community for the benefit of all.

I’m interested in Dictionary induction from wikis, because it would be very useful for automatically building dictionaries for Apertium, and also for myself, because I’m going to be able to acquire knowledge about ontology queries (RDF queries, for example). Therefore, it will be good for my researches on ontologies.

Questions about my application

Basically, I will have to design and implement queries to wikis' databases, extract the useful information from the results and then build dictionaries from these informations, right? Since interpreting page content from wikipedia (and other sources which are not semantically organized) is not a trivial task (I think so), and I'd like to work with ontologies. So I was wondering if I could work only with DBpedia.