On using multilingual ontology to analyze English e-news on terrorist attacks

The article explores the issues of ontological analysis of electronic text streams in various languages based on a language-independent domain-specific ontological resource. The research methodology combines descriptive and prescriptive approaches and includes several iterative steps: acquisition, analysis and formalization of textual data with subsequent identification of their conceptual structure, which, in turn, is used both to determine and improve the ontology content, and to refine the ontological analysis of specific monolingual texts. The approach to the ontological analysis is presented based on the example of its application to the English-language e-news on terrorist attacks. Particular attention is paid to the main problem of ontological analysis, which is the resolution of conceptual ambiguity in mapping lexical manifestations onto the ontological level of information representation.