LEMON -The Lexicon Model for Ontologies

I just came across this interesting project site, the Lexicon Modle for Ontologies (LEMON) website. Lemon is a proposed model for modeling lexicon and machine-readable dictionaries and linked to the Semantic Web and the Linked Data cloud. Lemon is used by Dbnary,DBpedia WiktionaryParole/Simple, ubyLemon, Eurosentiment and PanLex.

Lemon was designed to meet the following challenges:-
  • RDF-native form to enable leverage of existing Semantic Web technologies (SPARQL, OWL, RIF etc.).
  • Linguistically sound structure based on LMF to enable conversion to existing offline formats.
  • Separation of the lexicon and ontology layers, to ensure compatability with existing OWL models.
  • Linking to data categories, in order to allow for arbitrarily complex linguistic description. In particular the LexInfo vocabulary is aligned to lemon and ISOcat.

More information is here