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| Title | Extending a wordnet framework for simplicity and scalability |
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| Authors | Pedro Fialho, Sérgio Curto, Ana Cristina Mendes and Luísa Coheur |
| Abstract | The WordNet knowledge model is currently implemented in multiple software frameworks providing procedural access to language instances of it. Frameworks tend to be focused on structural/design aspects of the model thus describing low level interfaces for linguistic knowledge retrieval. Typically the only high level feature directly accessible is word lookup while traversal of semantic relations leads to verbose/complex combinations of data structures, pointers and indexes which are irrelevant in an NLP context. Here is described an extension to the JWNL framework that hides technical requirements of access to WordNet features with an essentially word/sense based API applying terminology from the official online interface. This high level API is applied to the original English version of WordNet and to an SQL based Portuguese lexicon, translated into a WordNet based representation usable by JWNL. |
| Topics | Tools, systems, applications, Lexicon, lexical database, Semantics |
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Extending a wordnet framework for simplicity and scalability |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{FIALHO12.376, author = {Pedro Fialho and Sérgio Curto and Ana Cristina Mendes and Luísa Coheur}, title = {Extending a wordnet framework for simplicity and scalability}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)}, year = {2012}, month = {may}, date = {23-25}, address = {Istanbul, Turkey}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Mehmet Uğur Doğan and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-7-7}, language = {english} } |