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| Title | The Semantic Atlas: an Interactive Model of Lexical Representation |
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| Authors | Sabine Ploux, Armelle Boussidan and Hyungsuk Ji |
| Abstract | In this paper we describe two geometrical models of meaning representation, theSemantic Atlas (SA) and the Automatic Contexonym Organizing Model (ACOM). TheSA provides maps of meaning generated through correspondence factor analysis.The models can handle different types of word relations: synonymy in the SA andco-occurrence in ACOM. Their originality relies on an artifact called 'cliques'- a fine grained infra linguistic sub-unit of meaning. The SA is composed ofseveral dictionaries and thesauri enhanced with a process of symmetrisation. Itis currently available for French and English in monolingual versions as wellas in a bilingual translation version. Other languages are under developmentand testing. ACOM deals with unannotated corpora. The models are used byresearch teams worldwide that investigate synonymy, translation processes,genre comparison, psycholinguistics and polysemy modeling. Both models can beconsulted online via a flexible interface allowing for interactive navigationon http://dico.isc.cnrs.fr. This site is the most consulted address of theFrench National Center for Scientific Research’s domain (CNRS), one of themajor research bodies in France. The international interest it has triggeredled us to initiate the process of going open source. In the meantime, all ourdatabases are freely available on request. |
| Language | Lexicon, lexical database |
| Topics | Semantics, Language modelling, Lexicon, lexical database |
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The Semantic Atlas: an Interactive Model of Lexical Representation |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{PLOUX10.592, author = {Sabine Ploux, Armelle Boussidan and Hyungsuk Ji}, title = {The Semantic Atlas: an Interactive Model of Lexical Representation}, 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} } |