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Through this study, we built an ontology of Voseo in Latin American movies and dramas.

We categorized the identified voseo phenomenon into parts of speech such as pronouns and verbs and established relationships with the countries where they are used again, and defined relationships between voseo phenomenon and the movies or dramas analyzed in the ontology. 

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In general, we defined the classes of the ontology as Voseo (Pronoun, Verb), Content (Movie or Drama), and Region (Country), and created each object within these categories.

The ontology is available at the address below and can be utilized by anyone for research or learning purposes, and in the future, the ontology search function can be utilized to search for a specific Voseo word or simply check whether it is used in a certain country, and it can be expanded for informational or research purposes by linking with other ontologies published online.

 

The path of the Latin American Voseo phenomenon ontology we built was as follows
https://www.espanol.today/ontologies/2024/voseo/voseo.rdf

Here's a quick overview of what the ontology consists of

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rdf:RDF xmlns="http://www.espanol.today/ontologies/2024/voseo/"
xml:base="http://www.espanol.today/ontologies/2024/voseo/"
xmlns:owl="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#"
xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"
xmlns:voseo="http://www.espanol.today/ontologies/2024/voseo#">
<owl:Ontology rdf:about="http://www.espanol.today/ontologies/2024/voseo">
<rdfs:comment>VOSEO Ontology</rdfs:comment>
<rdfs:label>Voseo Ontology</rdfs:label>
</owl:Ontology>

 

First, we have the definition of this ontology,

 

<owl:ObjectProperty rdf:about="http://www.espanol.today/ontologies/2024/voseo#hasCountryOfOrigin">
<rdfs:domain rdf:resource="http://www.espanol.today/ontologies/2024/voseo#Content"/>
<rdfs:range rdf:resource="http://www.espanol.today/ontologies/2024/voseo#Region"/>
</owl:ObjectProperty>

 

The ontology is composed of super classes of Voseo, Region, and Content, and individual verbs, which are objects of Verb, a subclass of Voseo, are given properties such as whether the verb is a prototype, past tense, or future tense, and a relation to the country (Region) where it is used.

 

<owl:ObjectProperty rdf:about="http://www.espanol.today/ontologies/2024/voseo#isBaseForm">
<owl:inverseOf rdf:resource="http://www.espanol.today/ontologies/2024/voseo#isFutureTense"/>
<owl:inverseOf rdf:resource="http://www.espanol.today/ontologies/2024/voseo#isImperative"/>
<owl:inverseOf rdf:resource="http://www.espanol.today/ontologies/2024/voseo#isPastTense"/>
<owl:inverseOf rdf:resource="http://www.espanol.today/ontologies/2024/voseo#isPresentTense"/>
<rdfs:domain rdf:resource="http://www.espanol.today/ontologies/2024/voseo#verbs"/>
<rdfs:range rdf:resource="http://www.espanol.today/ontologies/2024/voseo#Region"/>
</owl:ObjectProperty>

 

The following example shows the definition of the verb object hablás in the built ontology, which describes in OWL (Ontology Language) that the basic form of the verb is hablar and the countries in which it is used are Argentina and Uruguay.

 

<owl:NamedIndividual rdf:about="http://www.espanol.today/ontologies/2024/voseo#hablás">

        <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.espanol.today/ontologies/2024/voseo#verbs"/>

        <voseo:isBaseForm rdf:resource="http://www.espanol.today/ontologies/2024/voseo#hablar"/>

        <voseo:isPastTense rdf:resource="http://www.espanol.today/ontologies/2024/voseo#hablaste"/>

        <voseo:isUsedIn rdf:resource="http://www.espanol.today/ontologies/2024/voseo#Argentina"/>

        <voseo:isUsedIn rdf:resource="http://www.espanol.today/ontologies/2024/voseo#Uruguay"/>

    </owl:NamedIndividual>