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| Title | REBECA: Turning WordNet Databases into "Ontolexicons" |
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| Authors | Bento Carlos Dias-da-Silva and Ariani Di-Felippo |
| Abstract | In this paper we outline the design and present a sample of the REBECAbilingual lexical-conceptual database constructed by linking two monolinguallexical resources in which a set of lexicalized concepts of the North-AmericanEnglish database, the Princeton WordNet (WN.Pr) synsets, is aligned with itscorresponding set of lexicalized concepts of the Brazilian Portuguese database,the Brazilian Portuguese WordNet synsets under construction, by means of theMultiNet-based interlingual schema, the concepts of which are the onesrepresented by the Princeton WordNet synsets. Implemented in the Protégé-OWLeditor, the alignment of the two databases illustrates how wordnets can beturned into ontolexicons. At the current stage of development, the“wheeled-vehicle” conceptual domain was modeled to develop and to testREBECA’s design and contents, respectively. The collection of 205 ontologicalconcepts worked out, i.e. REBECA´s alignment indexes, is exemplified in the“wheeled- vehicle” conceptual domain, e.g. [CAR], [RAILCAR], etc., and itwas selected in the WN.Pr database, version 2.0. Future work includes thepopulation of the database with more lexical data and other conceptual domainsso that the intricacies of adding more concepts and devising the spreading orpruning the relationships between them can be properly evaluated. |
| Language | Ontologies |
| Topics | Lexicon, lexical database, Semantics, Ontologies |
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REBECA: Turning WordNet Databases into "Ontolexicons" |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{DIASDASILVA10.838, author = {Bento Carlos Dias-da-Silva and Ariani Di-Felippo}, title = {REBECA: Turning WordNet Databases into "Ontolexicons"}, 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} } |