Making a Semantic Event-type Ontology Multilingual

Zdenka Uresova, Karolina Zaczynska, Peter Bourgonje, Eva Fučíková, Georg Rehm, Jan Hajic


Abstract
We present an extension of the SynSemClass Event-type Ontology, originally conceived as a bilingual Czech-English resource. We added German entries to the classes representing the concepts of the ontology. Having a different starting point than the original work (unannotated parallel corpus without links to a valency lexicon and, of course, different existing lexical resources), it was a challenge to adapt the annotation guidelines, the data model and the tools used for the original version. We describe the process and results of working in such a setup. We also show the next steps to adapt the annotation process, data structures and formats and tools necessary to make the addition of a new language in the future more smooth and efficient, and possibly to allow for various teams to work on SynSemClass extensions to many languages concurrently. We also present the latest release which contains the results of adding German, freely available for download as well as for online access.
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2022.lrec-1.142
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Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
June
Year:
2022
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Marseille, France
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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1332–1343
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.142
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Zdenka Uresova, Karolina Zaczynska, Peter Bourgonje, Eva Fučíková, Georg Rehm, and Jan Hajic. 2022. Making a Semantic Event-type Ontology Multilingual. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 1332–1343, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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Making a Semantic Event-type Ontology Multilingual (Uresova et al., LREC 2022)
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 linatal/synsemclass_ger