Extracting concrete senses of lexicon Through measurement of conceptual similarity in ontologies

Siaw Fong Chung; Laurent Prévot; Mingwei Xu; Kathleen Virginia Ahrens; Shu Kai Hsieh; Chu Ren Huang

Extracting concrete senses of lexicon Through measurement of conceptual similarity in ontologies

Siaw Fong Chung, Laurent Prévot, Mingwei Xu, Kathleen Virginia Ahrens, Shu Kai Hsieh, Chu Ren Huang

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

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Abstract

The measurement of conceptual similarity in a hierarchical structure has been proposed by studies such as Wu and Palmer (1994) which have been summarized and evaluated in Budanisky and Hirst (2006). The present study applies the measurement of conceptual similarity to conceptual metaphor research by comparing concreteness of ontological resource nodes to several prototypical concrete nodes selected by human subjects. Here, the purpose of comparing conceptual similarity between nodes is to select a concrete sense for a word which is used metaphorically. Through using WordNet-SUMO interface such as SinicaBow (Huang, Chang and Lee, 2004), concrete senses of a lexicon will be selected once its SUMO nodes have been compared in terms of conceptual similarity with the prototypical concrete nodes. This study has strong implications for the interaction of psycholinguistic and computational linguistic fields in conceptual metaphor research.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008
Publisher	European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Pages	1964-1968
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	2951740840, 9782951740846
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2008
Externally published	Yes
Event	6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008 - Palais des Congres Mansour Eddahbi, Marrakech, Morocco Duration: 28 May 2008 → 30 May 2008

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Conference	6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008
Country/Territory	Morocco
City	Marrakech
Period	28/05/08 → 30/05/08

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Library and Information Sciences
Linguistics and Language
Language and Linguistics
Education

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Chung, SF, Prévot, L, Xu, M, Ahrens, KV, Hsieh, SK & Huang, CR 2008, Extracting concrete senses of lexicon Through measurement of conceptual similarity in ontologies. in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 1964-1968, 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008, Marrakech, Morocco, 28/05/08.

Extracting concrete senses of lexicon Through measurement of conceptual similarity in ontologies. / Chung, Siaw Fong; Prévot, Laurent; Xu, Mingwei et al.
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2008. p. 1964-1968.

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