GeoNames Wordnet (geown): extracting wordnets from GeoNames

Francis Bond, Arthur Bond


Abstract
This paper introduces a new multilingual lexicon of geographical place names. The names are based on (and linked to) the GeoNames collection. Each location is treated as a new synset, which is linked by instance_hypernym to a small set of supertypes. These supertypes are linked to the collaborative interlingual index, based on mappings from GeoDomainWordnet. If a location is already in the interlingual index, then it is also linked to the entry, using mappings from the Geo-Wordnet. Finally, if GeoNames places the location in a larger location, this is linked using the mero_location link. Wordnets can be built for any language in GeoNames, we give results for those wordnets in the Open Multilingual Wordnet. We discuss how it is mapped and the characteristics of the extracted wordnets.
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2019.gwc-1.49
Volume:
Proceedings of the 10th Global Wordnet Conference
Month:
July
Year:
2019
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Wroclaw, Poland
Editors:
Piek Vossen, Christiane Fellbaum
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GWC
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SIGLEX
Publisher:
Global Wordnet Association
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Pages:
387–393
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https://aclanthology.org/2019.gwc-1.49
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Francis Bond and Arthur Bond. 2019. GeoNames Wordnet (geown): extracting wordnets from GeoNames. In Proceedings of the 10th Global Wordnet Conference, pages 387–393, Wroclaw, Poland. Global Wordnet Association.
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GeoNames Wordnet (geown): extracting wordnets from GeoNames (Bond & Bond, GWC 2019)
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