Wow! What a Useful Extension! Introducing Non-Referential Concepts to Wordnet

Luis Morgado Da Costa, Francis Bond


Abstract
In this paper we present the ongoing efforts to expand the depth and breath of the Open Multilingual Wordnet coverage by introducing two new classes of non-referential concepts to wordnet hierarchies: interjections and numeral classifiers. The lexical semantic hierarchy pioneered by Princeton Wordnet has traditionally restricted its coverage to referential and contentful classes of words: such as nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. Previous efforts have been employed to enrich wordnet resources including, for example, the inclusion of pronouns, determiners and quantifiers within their hierarchies. Following similar efforts, and motivated by the ongoing semantic annotation of the NTU-Multilingual Corpus, we decided that the four traditional classes of words present in wordnets were too restrictive. Though non-referential, interjections and classifiers possess interesting semantics features that can be well captured by lexical resources like wordnets. In this paper, we will further motivate our decision to include non-referential concepts in wordnets and give an account of the current state of this expansion.
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L16-1685
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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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4323–4328
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Luis Morgado Da Costa and Francis Bond. 2016. Wow! What a Useful Extension! Introducing Non-Referential Concepts to Wordnet. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 4323–4328, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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