Textual genre based approach to use WordNet in language-for-specific-purpose classroom as dictionary

Itziar Gonzalez-Dios


Abstract
When teaching language for specific purposes (LSP) linguistic resources are needed to help students understand and write specialised texts. As building a lexical resource is costly, we explore the use of wordnets to represent the terms that can be found in particular textual domains. In order to gather the terms to be included in wordnets, we propose a textual genre approach, that leads us to introduce a new relation term used in to link all the possible terms/synsets that can appear in a text to the synset of the textual genre. This way, students can use wordnet as dictionary or thesaurus when writing specialised texts. We explain our approach by means of the logbooks and terms in Basque. A side effect of this works is also enriching the wordnets with new variants and synsets.
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2019.gwc-1.28
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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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222–227
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Itziar Gonzalez-Dios. 2019. Textual genre based approach to use WordNet in language-for-specific-purpose classroom as dictionary. In Proceedings of the 10th Global Wordnet Conference, pages 222–227, Wroclaw, Poland. Global Wordnet Association.
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