A lemon lexicon for DBpedia

As the body of knowledge available as linked data grows, so does the need to provide methods that make this knowledge accessible for humans. Such methods usually require knowledge about how the vocabulary elements used in the available ontologies and datasets are verbalized in natural language. This has lead to much interest in the development of models and frameworks for publishing ontology lexica as linked data. In this paper we describe a process for the manual development of such lexica in lemon format and illustrate some of the key challenges involved. As a proof of concept, we provide a manually created English lexicon for the DBpedia ontology and describe its first release.