3D editor for multilingual ontologies using universal words

Abstract

This work describes a multilingual ontology editor where the concepts and semantic relations are constructed inside a three-dimensional space. Initially the prototype is being programmed to compare three types of ontology editors. This editor will serve to construct ontologies viewed as relationship networks, and its concepts can be written in multiple languages, and can be related to normalized concepts (universal words) of the UNL project. These concepts also can be associated to 3D objects, or associated among themselves, through relations from UML Class Diagram. These kind of relations are used for better representation, communication and understanding of concepts among worldwide users, and also are used to model semantic relations to improve results of searching tools.