Wordnet extension made simple: A multilingual lexicon-based approach using wiki resources

Valérie Hanoka, Benoît Sagot


Abstract
In this paper, we propose a simple methodology for building or extending wordnets using easily extractible lexical knowledge from Wiktionary and Wikipedia. This method relies on a large multilingual translation/synonym graph in many languages as well as synset-aligned wordnets. It guesses frequent and polysemous literals that are difficult to find using other methods by looking at back-translations in the graph, showing that the use of a heavily multilingual lexicon can be a way to mitigate the lack of wide coverage bilingual lexicon for wordnet creation or extension. We evaluate our approach on French by applying it for extending WOLF, a freely available French wordnet.
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L12-1669
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
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2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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3473–3478
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/1131_Paper.pdf
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Valérie Hanoka and Benoît Sagot. 2012. Wordnet extension made simple: A multilingual lexicon-based approach using wiki resources. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 3473–3478, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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