Recent Advances in Development of a Lexicon-Grammar of Polish: PolNet 3.0

Zygmunt Vetulani, Grażyna Vetulani, Bartłomiej Kochanowski


Abstract
The granularity of PolNet (Polish Wordnet) is the main theoretical issue discussed in the paper. We describe the latest extension of PolNet including valency information of simple verbs and noun-verb collocations using manual and machine-assisted methods. Valency is defined to include both semantic and syntactic selectional restrictions. We assume the valency structure of a verb to be an index of meaning. Consistently we consider it an attribute of a synset. Strict application of this principle results in fine granularity of the verb section of the wordnet. Considering valency as a distinctive feature of synsets was an essential step to transform the initial PolNet (first intended as a lexical ontology) into a lexicon-grammar. For the present refinement of PolNet we assume that the category of language register is a part of meaning. The totality of PolNet 2.0 synsets is being revised in order to split the PolNet 2.0 synsets that contain different register words into register-uniform sub-synsets. We completed this operation for synsets that were used as values of semantic roles. The operation augmented the number of considered synsets by 29%. In the paper we report an extension of the class of collocation-based verb synsets.
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L16-1455
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
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May
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2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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2851–2854
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Zygmunt Vetulani, Grażyna Vetulani, and Bartłomiej Kochanowski. 2016. Recent Advances in Development of a Lexicon-Grammar of Polish: PolNet 3.0. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 2851–2854, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Recent Advances in Development of a Lexicon-Grammar of Polish: PolNet 3.0 (Vetulani et al., LREC 2016)
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