Challenges of Word Sense Alignment: Portuguese Language Resources

Ana Salgado, Sina Ahmadi, Alberto Simões, John Philip McCrae, Rute Costa


Abstract
This paper reports on an ongoing task of monolingual word sense alignment in which a comparative study between the Portuguese Academy of Sciences Dictionary and the Dicionário Aberto is carried out in the context of the ELEXIS (European Lexicographic Infrastructure) project. Word sense alignment involves searching for matching senses within dictionary entries of different lexical resources and linking them, which poses significant challenges. The lexicographic criteria are not always entirely consistent within individual dictionaries and even less so across different projects where different options may have been assumed in terms of structure and especially wording techniques of lexicographic glosses. This hinders the task of matching senses. We aim to present our annotation workflow in Portuguese using the Semantic Web technologies. The results obtained are useful for the discussion within the community.
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2020.ldl-1.7
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Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2020)
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May
Year:
2020
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Marseille, France
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Maxim Ionov, John P. McCrae, Christian Chiarcos, Thierry Declerck, Julia Bosque-Gil, Jorge Gracia
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LDL
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European Language Resources Association
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45–51
Language:
English
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.ldl-1.7
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Ana Salgado, Sina Ahmadi, Alberto Simões, John Philip McCrae, and Rute Costa. 2020. Challenges of Word Sense Alignment: Portuguese Language Resources. In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2020), pages 45–51, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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Challenges of Word Sense Alignment: Portuguese Language Resources (Salgado et al., LDL 2020)
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