Slovak Conceptual Dictionary

TL;DR

This paper introduces the first Slovak conceptual dictionary to enhance NLP tasks for the language, addressing resource scarcity and improving automated processing capabilities.

Contribution

It presents a novel linguistic resource for Slovak, filling a gap in available NLP tools for low-resource languages.

Findings

Provides the first Slovak conceptual dictionary

Enables better NLP performance for Slovak language tasks

Addresses resource scarcity in low-resource language NLP

Abstract

When solving tasks in the field of natural language processing, we sometimes need dictionary tools, such as lexicons, word form dictionaries or knowledge bases. However, the availability of dictionary data is insufficient in many languages, especially in the case of low resourced languages. In this article, we introduce a new conceptual dictionary for the Slovak language as the first linguistic tool of this kind. Since Slovak language is a language with limited linguistic resources and there are currently not available any machine-readable linguistic data sources with a sufficiently large volume of data, many tasks which require automated processing of Slovak text achieve weaker results compared to other languages and are almost impossible to solve.