VIRTUAL LANGUAGE FRAMEWORK (VLF) - A Semantic Abstraction Layer

Frédéric Hallot, Wim Mees

2009

Abstract

In a previous paper, we presented the concept of the Semantic Abstraction Layer (SAL) as a theoretical abstraction aiming to solve some recurrent design problems related to semantics and multilingualism. In this paper, after a short recall of what a SAL is, we present the Virtual Language Framework (VLF), which is our implementation of the SAL concept. We present two approaches for implementing the VLF, one centralized and the other decentralized. We discuss their advantages and drawbacks and then present our solution, which combines both strategies. We end with a short description of an ongoing project at the Royal Military Academy of Belgium where the VLF is used in the context of a disaster management information system.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hallot F. and Mees W. (2009). VIRTUAL LANGUAGE FRAMEWORK (VLF) - A Semantic Abstraction Layer . In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8111-81-4, pages 393-398. DOI: 10.5220/0001818203930398

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist09,
author={Frédéric Hallot and Wim Mees},
title={VIRTUAL LANGUAGE FRAMEWORK (VLF) - A Semantic Abstraction Layer},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2009},
pages={393-398},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001818203930398},
isbn={978-989-8111-81-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - VIRTUAL LANGUAGE FRAMEWORK (VLF) - A Semantic Abstraction Layer
SN - 978-989-8111-81-4
AU - Hallot F.
AU - Mees W.
PY - 2009
SP - 393
EP - 398
DO - 10.5220/0001818203930398