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| Title | Constructing of an Ontology-based Lexicon for Bulgarian |
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| Authors | Kiril Simov and Petya Osenova |
| Abstract | In this paper we report on the progress in the creation of an Ontology-basedlexicon for Bulgarian. We have started with the concept set from an upperontology (DOLCE). Then it was extended with concepts selected from theOntoWordNet, which correspond to Core WordNet and EuroWordNet Basic concepts.The underlying idea behind the ontology-based lexicon is its organization viatwo semantic relations - equivalence and subsumption. These relations reflectthe distribution of lexical unit senses with respect to the concepts in theontology. The lexical unit candidates for concept mapping have been selectedfrom two large and well-developed lexical resources for Bulgarian - a machinereadable explanatory dictionary and a morphological lexicon. In the initialstep, the lexical units were handled that have equivalent senses to theconcepts in the ontology (2500 at the moment). Then, in the second stage, weare proceeding with lexical units selected on their frequency distribution in alarge Bulgarian corpus. This step is the more challenging one, since it mightrequire also additions of concepts to the ontology. The main applications ofthe lexicon are envisaged to be the semantic annotation and semantic IR forBulgarian. |
| Language | Semantics |
| Topics | Lexicon, lexical database, Ontologies, Semantics |
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Constructing of an Ontology-based Lexicon for Bulgarian |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{SIMOV10.848, author = {Kiril Simov and Petya Osenova}, title = {Constructing of an Ontology-based Lexicon for Bulgarian}, 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} } |