Wiktionary and NLP: Improving synonymy networks

Emmanuel Navarro, Franck Sajous, Bruno Gaume, Laurent Prévot, Hsieh ShuKai, Kuo Tzu-Yi, Pierre Magistry, Huang Chu-Ren

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Abstract

Wiktionary, a satellite of the Wikipedia initiative, can be seen as a potential resource for Natural Language Processing. It requires however to be processed before being used efficiently as an NLP resource. After describing the relevant aspects of Wiktionary for our purposes, we focus on its structural properties. Then, we describe how we extracted synonymy networks from this resource. We provide an in-depth study of these synonymy networks and compare them to those extracted from traditional resources. Finally, we describe two methods for semi-automatically improving this network by adding missing relations: (i) using a kind of semantic proximity measure; (ii) using translation relations of Wiktionary itself.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPeople's Web 2009 - 2009 Workshop on The People's Web Meets NLP
Subtitle of host publicationCollaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources at the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP, ACL-IJCNLP 2009 - Proceedings
EditorsIryna Gurevych, Torsten Zesch
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages19-27
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)1932432558, 9781932432558
Publication statusPublished - 7 Aug 2009
Event1st Workshop on The People's Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources, People's Web 2009 at the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP, ACL-IJCNLP 2009 - Suntec, Singapore
Duration: 7 Aug 2009 → …

Publication series

NamePeople's Web 2009 - 2009 Workshop on The People's Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources at the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP, ACL-IJCNLP 2009 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference1st Workshop on The People's Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources, People's Web 2009 at the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP, ACL-IJCNLP 2009
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySuntec
Period7/08/09 → …

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Linguistics and Language
  • Language and Linguistics

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