Affiliations: Semantic Computing Group, Cognitive Interaction Technology Excellence Center, Universität Bielefeld, Germany. E-mail: cimiano@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de | Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. E-mails: {emontiel, jespinoza, asun}@fi.upm.es | Unit for Natural Language Processing, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. E-mail: paul.buitelaar@deri.org
Note: [] Corresponding author: Philipp Cimiano, Semantic Computing Group, Cognitive Interaction Technology Center of Excellence (CITEC), Universität Bielefeld, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany. E-mail: cimiano@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de.
Abstract: We revisit the notion of ontology localization, propose a new definition and clearly specify the layers of an ontology that can be affected by the process of localizing it. We also work out a number of dimensions that allow to characterize the type of ontology localization performed and to predict the layers that will be affected. Overall our aim is to contribute to a better understanding of the task of localizing an ontology.
