Recently, the Semantic Web has experienced significant advancements in standards and techniques, asudwell as in the amount of semantic information available online. Nevertheless, mechanisms are stilludneeded to automatically reconcile information when it is expressed in different natural languages on theudWeb of Data, in order to improve the access to semantic information across language barriers. In thisudcontext several challenges arise [1], such as: (i) ontology translation/localization, (ii) cross-lingualudontology mappings, (iii) representation of multilingual lexical information, and (iv) cross-lingual accessudand querying of linked data.udIn the following we will focus on the second challenge, which is the necessity of establishing,udrepresenting and storing cross-lingual links among semantic information on the Web. In fact, in aud“truly” multilingual Semantic Web, semantic data with lexical representations in one natural languageudwould be mapped to equivalent or related information in other languages, thus making navigation acrossudmultilingual information possible for software agents.
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