Exploring interoperability of language resources: the case of cross-lingual semi-automatic enrichment of wordnets

Soria, Claudia; Monachini, Monica; Bertagna, Francesca; Calzolari, Nicoletta; Huang, Chu‐Ren; Hsieh, Shu-Kai; Marchetti, Andrea; Tesconi, Maurizio

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“…Various heuristics are used to calculate the intersection between the translated bag of words and the synset words, concepts or relations of the target language, such as finding the closest hyperonym synset (accuracy rate of 79.76%), the closest common synset word bag (accuracy rate of 74.48%) and the closest common concept word bag (accuracy rate of 55.20%). Finally, Soria et al (2009) develop a mechanism for enriching monolingual lexicons with new semantic relations by relying on the use of Inter-Lingual-Indexes to link WordNets of different languages. However, the quality of these links is not evaluated.…”

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Proceedings of Workshop on Lexical and Grammatical Resources for Language Processing

Baptista¹,

Bhattacharyya

Fellbaum³

et al. 2014

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ii IntroductionThe first instance of the Workshop on Lexical and Grammatical Resources for Language Processing (LG-LP 2014) took place on August 24th in Dublin, in conjunction with COLING 2014. It was co-sponsored by ASIALEX and endorsed by SIGLEX.The workshop aimed to bring together members of the language-resource (LR) landscape, focusing on complex linguistic knowledge that requires linguistic expertise, e.g. on dictionaries, ontologies and grammars. Such manually-built resources are key to the development of natural language processing (NLP) tools and applications. We intended to strengthen the cohesion of the scientific 'production chain' spanning from the construction of LRs to their exploitation in hybrid or symbolic NLP. It is necessary to increase mutual awareness between researchers along this production chain, regarding their activities, skills and needs, in view of improving the building processes of the resources, their validation and their exploitation.Many linguists are comfortable with descriptive tasks such as checking lexical entries for a given feature, even if each entry requires analysing or pondering. On the other hand, computer scientists are familiar with formalization and, usually, with notions such as falsifiability or reproducibility, which are fundamental to sciences. Combining all these skills is likely to stimulate innovation. The workshop offered an opportunity of interaction which is required to overcome the compartmentalization between humanities and sciences, and to intensify co-operation between the two ends of the chain. Researchers were encouraged to exchange about how they manage to face several challenges:• the context of this production chain requires that they not be content with understanding phenomena, but also achieve actual production of formalized results;• resulting resources should reach a reasonable level of verifiability, e.g. by finding formal or syntactic bases as a support to semantic description;• methods which are able to cover the most diverse languages are to be preferred;• the format of manual construction of complex LRs must be highly readable, so that errors can be easily detected and corrected;• conceptual models are not easy to assign to large amounts of language data; due to idiosyncratic behaviour of lexical entries, it is often required to manually examine them individually as regards syntax or semantics;• many multiword expressions, including support-verb constructions, are somewhere halfway between compositional and non-compositional constructs;• actual implementation of NLP systems and real-world applications may provide feedback on complex lexical and grammatical LRs used in them, but experimentation is required to accurately relate features of the LRs with features of results obtained in NLP.We received 31 submissions and accepted 19: an acceptance rate of 61%. We scheduled 10 papers for oral presentation and 9 as posters. The workshop closed with a general discussion.We would like to thank the members of the Program Committee for their timely...

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Proceedings of Workshop on Lexical and Grammatical Resources for Language Processing

Baptista¹,

Bhattacharyya

Fellbaum³

et al. 2014

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“…Recently, Sagot and Fišer (2008) have built WOLF, a free French WordNet, by using several existing resources to bootstrap both concepts (based on synonymy) in French and English and build an inter-lingual index from which resources in each language was able to enrich the other. Soria et al (2009), for making a proof of concept of language resources interoperability, used translation links to operate an automatic cross-lingual fertilization of two lexicons having a WordNet structure. However, all these methods rely on pre-existing lexical resources.…”

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“…Sagot et Fišer (2008) ont construit WOLF, un WordNet libre du français, en utilisant plusieurs ressources existantes pour amorcer d'une part une base de concepts (fondés sur la synonymie) français et anglais et pour construire un index interlangue à partir duquel les projections ont été opérées. De même, Soria et al (2009) ont utilisé des liens de traduction pour effectuer une « fertilisation mutuelle automatique » de deux lexiques, italien et chinois, ayant une structure similaire à celle de WN. Ces expériences ont le mérite de prouver la faisabilité de la méthode, mais ne permettent pas de produire des ressources fiables en l'absence de validation manuelle.…”

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Semi-automatic enrichment of crowdsourced synonymy networks: the WISIGOTH system applied to Wiktionary

Sajous

Navarro

Gaume

et al. 2011

Lang Resources & Evaluation

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International audienceSemantic lexical resources are a mainstay of various Natural Language Processing applications. However, comprehensive and reliable resources are rare and not often freely available. Handcrafted resources are too costly for being a general solution while automatically-built resources need to be validated by experts or at least thoroughly evaluated. We propose in this paper a picture of the current situation with regard to lexical resources, their building and their evaluation. We give an in-depth description of Wiktionary, a freely available and collaboratively built multilingual dictionary. Wiktionary is presented here as a promising raw resource for NLP. We propose a semi-automatic approach based on random walks for enriching Wiktionary synonymy network that uses both endogenous and exogenous data. We take advantage of the wiki infrastructure to propose a validation "by crowds". Finally, we present an implementation called WISIGOTH, which supports our approach

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Multilingual Conceptual Access to Lexicon Based on Shared Orthography: An Ontology-Driven Study of Chinese and Japanese

Huang

Chou

Hotani

et al. 2014

Language Production, Cognition, and the Lexicon

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In this paper we propose a model for conceptual access to multilingual lexicon based on shared orthography. Our proposal relies crucially on two facts: That both Chinese and Japanese conventionally use Chinese orthography in their respective writing systems, and that the Chinese orthography is anchored on a system of radical parts which encodes basic concepts. Each orthographic unit, called hanzi and kanji respectively, contains a radical which indicates the broad semantic class of the meaning of that unit. Our study utilizes the homomorphism between the Chinese hanzi and Japanese kanji systems to ide 1 ntify bilingual word correspondences. We use bilingual dictionaries, including WordNet, to verify semantic relation between the crosslingual pairs. These bilingual pairs are then mapped to an ontology constructed based on relations to the relation between the meaning of each character and the

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Exploring interoperability of language resources: the case of cross-lingual semi-automatic enrichment of wordnets

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

Proceedings of Workshop on Lexical and Grammatical Resources for Language Processing

Proceedings of Workshop on Lexical and Grammatical Resources for Language Processing

Semi-automatic enrichment of crowdsourced synonymy networks: the WISIGOTH system applied to Wiktionary

Multilingual Conceptual Access to Lexicon Based on Shared Orthography: An Ontology-Driven Study of Chinese and Japanese

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