Linking Pictographs to Synsets: Sclera2Cornetto

Vincent Vandeghinste, Ineke Schuurman


Abstract
Social inclusion of people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities can be promoted by offering them ways to independently use the internet. People with reading or writing disabilities can use pictographs instead of text. We present a resource in which we have linked a set of 5710 pictographs to lexical-semantic concepts in Cornetto, a Wordnet-like database for Dutch. We show that, by using this resource in a text-to-pictograph translation system, we can greatly improve the coverage comparing with a baseline where words are converted into pictographs only if the word equals the filename.
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L14-1195
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
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May
Year:
2014
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, 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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3404–3410
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/189_Paper.pdf
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Vincent Vandeghinste and Ineke Schuurman. 2014. Linking Pictographs to Synsets: Sclera2Cornetto. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 3404–3410, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Linking Pictographs to Synsets: Sclera2Cornetto (Vandeghinste & Schuurman, LREC 2014)
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