Some Issues with Building a Multilingual Wordnet

Francis Bond, Luis Morgado da Costa, Michael Wayne Goodman, John Philip McCrae, Ahti Lohk


Abstract
In this paper we discuss the experience of bringing together over 40 different wordnets. We introduce some extensions to the GWA wordnet LMF format proposed in Vossen et al. (2016) and look at how this new information can be displayed. Notable extensions include: confidence, corpus frequency, orthographic variants, lexicalized and non-lexicalized synsets and lemmas, new parts of speech, and more. Many of these extensions already exist in multiple wordnets – the challenge was to find a compatible representation. To this end, we introduce a new version of the Open Multilingual Wordnet (Bond and Foster, 2013), that integrates a new set of tools that tests the extensions introduced by this new format, while also ensuring the integrity of the Collaborative Interlingual Index (CILI: Bond et al., 2016), avoiding the same new concept to be introduced through multiple projects.
Anthology ID:
2020.lrec-1.390
Volume:
Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
May
Year:
2020
Address:
Marseille, France
Editors:
Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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Publisher:
European Language Resources Association
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Pages:
3189–3197
Language:
English
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.390
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Francis Bond, Luis Morgado da Costa, Michael Wayne Goodman, John Philip McCrae, and Ahti Lohk. 2020. Some Issues with Building a Multilingual Wordnet. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 3189–3197, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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Some Issues with Building a Multilingual Wordnet (Bond et al., LREC 2020)
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