Towards OntoLex-Lemon editing in VocBench 3

Released in early May 2016, the OntoLex-Lemon model is a suite of agreed-upon RDF vocabularies for the representation of ontology lexicons. The OntoLex-Lemon model, as well as its predecessor Monnet lemon, has also been used (actually “misused”, from a certain point of view) to represent lexical-semantic resources (e.g. wordnets), dictionaries and, more broadly, to serve as a cornerstone of the Linguistic Linked Open Data cloud. The number of users potentially interested in editing or consuming OntoLex-Lemon data is thus very large. However, common ontology and RDF editors are inconvenient because of the complex design patterns embodied in the OntoLex-Lemon model, which relies heavily on reification and indirection. In this paper, we discuss our ongoing work to extend the collaborative thesaurus and ontology editor VocBench 3 with facilities tailored to the OntoLex-Lemon model, while retaining its large feature set and the wide modelling spectrum offered by RDF.