Proposing an OntoLex-MMoOn Alignment: Towards an Interconnection of two Linguistic Domain Models

This paper motivates and proposes to align the OntoLex and MMoOn Core models. It deals in particular with the ontolex and decomp modules and their potential as ontological foundation to represent the domain of morphological language data (MLD). It will be argued that ontolex and decomp provide only a basic modelling of the domain, which is not sufficient for representing fine-grained MLD, but suitable for interconnecting OntoLex with the Multilingual Morpheme Core Ontology (MMoOn Core). Both models each offer a modelling of a linguistic domain OntoLex for lexical language data and MMoOn Core for morphological language data that exhibits a notable amount of conceptual overlap. Thus, this paper investigates the potential of exploiting the overlap of both models for initiating an ontology-based interconnection of lexical and morphological datasets.