The pattern purpose is not to encompass all linguistic complexity as Linginfo or LMF does, but to describe linguistic information in more details than SKOS which names concept whith simple labels.

Linguistic, Vocabulary

• How to distinguish a preferred term or label from synonyms in order to name a concept?
• How to enable cross language searching?
• How to allow adding properties on term?

This pattern suits for various vocabularies (thesaurus, terminology, taxonomy…) and has been applied to GEMET, Eurovoc, CIM10 among other. Modeling takes into account: -the possibility to extend the current pattern in order to add some more precise linguistic information (for instance represent translation relation between two terms since term is a class) -minimal linguistic artifacts necessary for vocabulary resource access by providing a preferred Term to name a concept and some synonyms which are Simple non preferred terms.

• http://sites.google.com/site/pierreyvesvandenbussche/resources/ConceptTermsEurovocExample.owl

• BS8723-5 model: http://schemas.bs8723.org/Examples.aspx In BS8723 model
• triangular-shaped relations are defined between a thesaurus concept
• a preferred term and some simple non preferred terms. We are convinced that maintaining this model can be optimized by reifying those relations in a single relation class. That is why we defines the Concept-Terms relation which reusing N-ary pattern in order to represent terms on a concept. Between all terms
• we distinguish a preferred term and some synonyms (simple non preferred terms).