<s>
Arabic	B-General_Concept
Ontology	I-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
linguistic	O
ontology	O
for	O
the	O
Arabic	O
language	O
,	O
which	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
as	O
an	O
Arabic	O
WordNet	B-General_Concept
with	O
ontologically	O
clean	O
content	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
ontology	O
structure	O
(	O
i.e.	O
,	O
data	O
model	O
)	O
is	O
similar	O
to	O
WordNet	B-General_Concept
structure	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
set	O
of	O
senses	O
is	O
called	O
synset	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Concepts	O
in	O
the	O
Arabic	B-General_Concept
Ontology	I-General_Concept
are	O
mapped	O
to	O
synsets	B-General_Concept
in	O
WordNet	B-General_Concept
,	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
to	O
BFO	O
and	O
DOLCE	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Terms	O
used	O
in	O
the	O
Arabic	B-General_Concept
Ontology	I-General_Concept
are	O
mapped	O
to	O
lemmas	O
in	O
the	O
LDC	O
's	O
SAMA	O
database	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Arabic	B-General_Concept
Ontology	I-General_Concept
can	O
be	O
seen	O
as	O
a	O
next	O
generation	O
of	O
WordNet	B-General_Concept
-	O
or	O
as	O
an	O
ontologically	O
clean	O
Arabic	O
WordNet	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
follows	O
the	O
same	O
structure	O
(	O
i.e.	O
,	O
data	O
model	O
)	O
as	O
WordNet	B-General_Concept
,	O
and	O
it	O
is	O
fully	O
mapped	O
to	O
WordNet	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
ontology	O
is	O
benchmarked	O
on	O
state-of-art	O
scientific	O
discoveries	O
,	O
while	O
WordNet	B-General_Concept
is	O
benchmarked	O
on	O
native	O
speakers’	O
naïve	O
knowledge	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Unlike	O
WordNet	B-General_Concept
,	O
all	O
concepts	O
in	O
the	O
ontology	O
are	O
formal	O
,	O
i.e.	O
,	O
a	O
concept	O
is	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
individuals	O
(	O
i.e.	O
,	O
a	O
class	O
)	O
,	O
thus	O
concepts	O
like	O
(	O
horizon	O
)	O
are	O
not	O
allowed	O
in	O
the	O
ontology	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Glosses	O
in	O
the	O
ontology	O
are	O
strictly	O
formulated	O
,	O
and	O
focus	O
on	O
the	O
distinguishing	O
characteristics	O
,	O
which	O
is	O
not	O
the	O
case	O
in	O
WordNet	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Arabic	B-General_Concept
Ontology	I-General_Concept
can	O
be	O
used	O
in	O
many	O
application	O
domains	O
;	O
such	O
as	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
Information	B-Library
retrieval	I-Library
,	O
to	O
enrich	O
queries	B-Library
(	O
e.g.	O
,	O
in	O
search	B-Application
engines	I-Application
)	O
and	O
improve	O
the	O
quality	O
of	O
the	O
results	O
,	O
i.e.	O
</s>
<s>
Machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
and	O
word-sense	B-General_Concept
disambiguation	I-General_Concept
,	O
by	O
finding	O
the	O
exact	O
mapping	O
of	O
concepts	O
across	O
languages	O
,	O
especially	O
that	O
the	O
Arabic	B-General_Concept
ontology	I-General_Concept
is	O
also	O
mapped	O
to	O
the	B-General_Concept
WordNet	I-General_Concept
;	O
</s>
<s>
Data	B-General_Concept
Integration	I-General_Concept
and	O
interoperability	O
in	O
which	O
the	O
Arabic	B-General_Concept
ontology	I-General_Concept
can	O
be	O
used	O
as	O
a	O
semantic	O
reference	O
to	O
link	O
databases	O
and	O
information	O
systems	O
;	O
</s>
<s>
Semantic	O
Web	O
and	O
Web	O
3.0	O
,	O
by	O
using	O
the	O
Arabic	B-General_Concept
ontology	I-General_Concept
as	O
a	O
semantic	O
reference	O
to	O
disambiguate	B-General_Concept
the	O
meanings	O
used	O
in	O
websites	O
;	O
among	O
many	O
other	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
URLs	O
in	O
the	O
Arabic	B-General_Concept
Ontology	I-General_Concept
are	O
designed	O
according	O
to	O
the	O
W3C	O
's	O
Best	O
Practices	O
for	O
Publishing	O
Linked	O
Data	O
,	O
as	O
described	O
in	O
the	O
following	O
URL	O
schemes	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ontology	O
Concept	O
:	O
Each	O
concept	O
in	O
the	O
Arabic	B-General_Concept
Ontology	I-General_Concept
has	O
a	O
ConceptID	O
and	O
can	O
be	O
accessed	O
using	O
:	O
https://{domain}/concept/{ConceptID	O
|	O
Term}	O
.	O
</s>
