Using WordNet for Building WordNets
Xavier Farreres, German Rigau & Horacio Rodriguez (Departament de, Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics of the Universitat Politecnica de, Catalunya)
TL;DR
This paper presents methodologies for rapidly constructing multilingual WordNets using English WordNet as a backbone for Catalan and Spanish, leveraging it as a lexical resource for various subtasks.
Contribution
It introduces a set of techniques that utilize English WordNet to efficiently build multilingual WordNets for different languages.
Findings
Effective methods for multilingual WordNet construction
English WordNet can serve as a backbone for other languages
Facilitates rapid development of lexical resources
Abstract
This paper summarises a set of methodologies and techniques for the fast construction of multilingual WordNets. The English WordNet is used in this approach as a backbone for Catalan and Spanish WordNets and as a lexical knowledge resource for several subtasks.
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Taxonomy
TopicsNatural Language Processing Techniques · Lexicography and Language Studies · linguistics and terminology studies