Fast developing of a Natural Language Interface for a Portuguese WordNet: Leveraging on Sentence Embeddings

Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, Alexandre Rademaker


Abstract
We describe how a natural language interface can be developed for a wordnet with a small set of handcrafted templates, leveraging on sentence embeddings. The proposed approach does not use rules for parsing natural language queries but experiments showed that the embeddings model is tolerant enough for correctly predicting relation types that do not match known patterns exactly. It was tested with OpenWordNet-PT, for which this method may provide an alternative interface, with benefits also on the curation process.
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2019.gwc-1.10
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Proceedings of the 10th Global Wordnet Conference
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July
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2019
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Wroclaw, Poland
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Piek Vossen, Christiane Fellbaum
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GWC
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SIGLEX
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Global Wordnet Association
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72–78
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Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira and Alexandre Rademaker. 2019. Fast developing of a Natural Language Interface for a Portuguese WordNet: Leveraging on Sentence Embeddings. In Proceedings of the 10th Global Wordnet Conference, pages 72–78, Wroclaw, Poland. Global Wordnet Association.
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Fast developing of a Natural Language Interface for a Portuguese WordNet: Leveraging on Sentence Embeddings (Oliveira & Rademaker, GWC 2019)
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