TY - GEN
T1 - Fostering intercultural collaboration: A web service architecture for cross-fertilization of distributed wordnets
AU - Bertagna, Francesca
AU - Monachini, Monica
AU - Soria, Claudia
AU - Calzolari, Nicoletta
AU - Huang, Chu-ren
AU - Hsieh, Shu Kai
AU - Marchetti, Andrea
AU - Tesconi, Maurizio
PY - 2007/12/1
Y1 - 2007/12/1
N2 - Enhancing the development of multilingual lexicons is of foremost importance for intercultural collaboration to take place, as multilingual lexicons are the cornerstone of several multilingual applications. However, the development and maintenance of large-scale, robust multilingual dictionaries is a tantalizing task. In this paper we present a tool, based on a web service architecture, enabling semi-automatic generation of bilingual lexicons through linking of distributed monolingual lexical resources. In addition to lexicon development, the architecture also allows enrichment of monolingual source lexicons through exploitation of the semantic information encoded in corresponding entries. In the paper we describe our case study applied to the Italian and Chinese wordnets, and we illustrate how the architecture can be extended to access distributed multilingual WordNets over the Internet, paving the way to exploitation in a cross-lingual framework of the wealth of information built over the last decade.
AB - Enhancing the development of multilingual lexicons is of foremost importance for intercultural collaboration to take place, as multilingual lexicons are the cornerstone of several multilingual applications. However, the development and maintenance of large-scale, robust multilingual dictionaries is a tantalizing task. In this paper we present a tool, based on a web service architecture, enabling semi-automatic generation of bilingual lexicons through linking of distributed monolingual lexical resources. In addition to lexicon development, the architecture also allows enrichment of monolingual source lexicons through exploitation of the semantic information encoded in corresponding entries. In the paper we describe our case study applied to the Italian and Chinese wordnets, and we illustrate how the architecture can be extended to access distributed multilingual WordNets over the Internet, paving the way to exploitation in a cross-lingual framework of the wealth of information built over the last decade.
KW - Distributed language resources
KW - Integration of WordNets
KW - Interoperable lexical resources
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=38149094835&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
SN - 9783540739999
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 146
EP - 158
BT - Intercultural Collaboration - First International Workshop, IWIC 2007, Invited and Selected Papers
T2 - 1st International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration, IWIC 2007
Y2 - 25 January 2007 through 26 January 2007
ER -