Semantics of body parts in African WordNet: a case of Northern Sotho

Mampaka Lydia Mojapelo


Abstract
This paper presents a linguistic account of the lexical semantics of body parts in African WordNet, with special reference to Northern Sotho. It focuses on external human body parts synsets in Northern Sotho. The paper seeks to support the effectiveness of African WordNet as a resource for services such as in the healthcare and medical field in South Africa. It transpired from this exploration that there is either a one-to-one correspondence or some form of misalignment of lexicalisation with regard to the sample of examined synsets. The paper concludes by making suggestions on how African WordNet can deal with such semantic misalignments in order to improve its efficiency as a resource for the targeted purpose.
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2016.gwc-1.34
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Proceedings of the 8th Global WordNet Conference (GWC)
Month:
27--30 January
Year:
2016
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Bucharest, Romania
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Christiane Fellbaum, Piek Vossen, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Corina Forascu
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GWC
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SIGLEX
Publisher:
Global Wordnet Association
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234–242
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https://aclanthology.org/2016.gwc-1.34
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Mampaka Lydia Mojapelo. 2016. Semantics of body parts in African WordNet: a case of Northern Sotho. In Proceedings of the 8th Global WordNet Conference (GWC), pages 234–242, Bucharest, Romania. Global Wordnet Association.
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Semantics of body parts in African WordNet: a case of Northern Sotho (Mojapelo, GWC 2016)
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