This document provides an overview of a tutorial on ontology engineering and lexical semantics. The tutorial aims to teach participants about developing ontologies, with a focus on building an ontology for bank customers. The tutorial will include sessions on ontology basics, tools, challenges, and multilingualism. It will guide students through practical exercises to build ontologies for populations, bank customers, legal persons, and using existing linguistic ontologies. The document outlines the learning objectives, session topics, and instructions for an exercise where each student will independently model the types of bank customers and their properties in an ontology.

1. ‫أكاديمية الحكومة اإللكترونية الفلسطينية‬
The Palestinian eGovernment Academy
www.egovacademy.ps
Tutorial 4: Ontology Engineering & Lexical Semantics
Session 3 & 4
(Building BankCustomer Ontology)
Dr. Mustafa Jarrar
University of Birzeit
mjarrar@birzeit.edu
www.jarrar.info
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2. About
This tutorial is part of the PalGov project, funded by the TEMPUS IV program of the
Commission of the European Communities, grant agreement 511159-TEMPUS-1-
2010-1-PS-TEMPUS-JPHES. The project website: www.egovacademy.ps
Project Consortium:
Birzeit University, Palestine
University of Trento, Italy
(Coordinator )
Palestine Polytechnic University, Palestine Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Palestine Technical University, Palestine
Université de Savoie, France
Ministry of Telecom and IT, Palestine
University of Namur, Belgium
Ministry of Interior, Palestine
TrueTrust, UK
Ministry of Local Government, Palestine
Coordinator:
Dr. Mustafa Jarrar
Birzeit University, P.O.Box 14- Birzeit, Palestine
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4. Tutorial Map
Topic Time
Session 1_1: The Need for Sharing Semantics 1.5
Session 1_2: What is an ontology 1.5
Intended Learning Objectives
A: Knowledge and Understanding Session 2: Lab- Build a Population Ontology 3
4a1: Demonstrate knowledge of what is an ontology, Session 3: Lab- Build a BankCustomer Ontology 3
how it is built, and what it is used for. Session 4: Lab- Build a BankCustomer Ontology 3
4a2: Demonstrate knowledge of ontology engineering
and evaluation. Session 5: Lab- Ontology Tools 3
4a3: Describe the difference between an ontology and a Session 6_1: Ontology Engineering Challenges 1.5
schema, and an ontology and a dictionary.
Session 6_2: Ontology Double Articulation 1.5
4a4: Explain the concept of language ontologies, lexical
semantics and multilingualism. Session 7: Lab - Build a Legal-Person Ontology 3
B: Intellectual Skills Session 8_1: Ontology Modeling Challenges 1.5
4b1: Develop quality ontologies. Session 8_2: Stepwise Methodologies 1.5
4b2: Tackle ontology engineering challenges.
4b3: Develop multilingual ontologies. Session 9: Lab - Build a Legal-Person Ontology 3
4b4: Formulate quality glosses. Session 10: Zinnar – The Palestinian eGovernment 3
C: Professional and Practical Skills Interoperability Framework
4c1: Use ontology tools. Session 11: Lab- Using Zinnar in web services 3
4c2: (Re)use existing Language ontologies.
Session 12_1: Lexical Semantics and Multilingually 1.5
D: General and Transferable Skills
d1: Working with team. Session 12_2: WordNets 1.5
d2: Presenting and defending ideas. Session 13: ArabicOntology 3
d3: Use of creativity and innovation in problem solving.
Session 14: Lab-Using Linguistic Ontologies 3
d4: Develop communication skills and logical reasoning
abilities. Session 15: Lab-Using Linguistic Ontologies 3
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5. Practical Session (BankCustomer Ontology)
Description:
To avoid identity and financial fraud, the Central Bank asked all banks
to submit all data they have about their customers. This data will be
then integrated, so to build a consistent database of customers. Before
adding a customer his/her/its identity will be then validated using the
registries in the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Economy, and the
Ministry of Finance.
 Build an ontology to specify the meaning of a BankCustomer, taking
into account that a customer can be a natural person (e.g., citizens,
foreigners, etc. ) or an organization (e.g., companies, associations,
etc.)
 That is, this ontology will not only be shared by all banks, but it will
commit to the definition of “legal entity” in the three ministries.
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6. Practical Session (BankCustomer Ontology)
• Each student should work alone.
• You may start classifying the types of customers in a paper, then
model these customers and their properties using ORM.
• You may reuse your previous population ontology, if needed.
• You may have a look at the “new customer” application used in
banks, to find the properties and types of customers (but don’t
follow literally).
• You may use laws and regulations, to understand the differences
between the types of legal entities .
• After finalizing the ontology, each student will be asked to present
his/her ontology to all students, so to collect comments and
feedback.
• Then each student will have some time to correct mistakes, and
submit the final ontology.
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