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| Title | Merging Specialist Taxonomies and Folk Taxonomies in Wordnets - A case Study of Plants, Animals and Foods in the Danish Wordnet |
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| Authors | Bolette S. Pedersen, Sanni Nimb and Anna Braasch |
| Abstract | In this paper we investigate the problem of merging specialist taxonomies withthe more intuitive folk taxonomies in lexical-semantic resources like wordnets;and we focus in particular on plants, animals and foods. We show that atraditional dictionary like Den Danske Ordbog (DDO) survives well with severalinconsistencies between different taxonomies of the vocabulary and that arestructuring is therefore necessary in order to compile a consistent wordnetresource on its basis. To this end, we apply Cruse’s definitions forhyponymies, namely those of natural kinds (such as plants and animals) on theone hand and functional kinds (such as foods) on the other. We pursue thisdistinction in the development of the Danish wordnet, DanNet, which hasrecently been built on the basis of DDO and is made open source for allpotential users at www.wordnet.dk. Not surprisingly, we conclude that culturalbackground influences the structure of folk taxonomies quite radically, andthat wordnet builders must therefore consider these carefully in order tocapture their central characteristics in a systematic way. |
| Language | LR national/international projects, organizational/policy issues |
| Topics | Lexicon, lexical database, Ontologies, LR national/international projects, organizational/policy issues |
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Merging Specialist Taxonomies and Folk Taxonomies in Wordnets - A case Study of Plants, Animals and Foods in the Danish Wordnet |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{PEDERSEN10.200, author = {Bolette S. Pedersen, Sanni Nimb and Anna Braasch}, title = {Merging Specialist Taxonomies and Folk Taxonomies in Wordnets - A case Study of Plants, Animals and Foods in the Danish Wordnet}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |