Merging a Syntactic Resource with a WordNet: a Feasibility Study of a Merge between STO and DanNet
Bolette Sandford Pedersen, Anna Braasch, Lina Henriksen, Sussi Olsen, Claus Povlsen
Abstract
This paper presents a feasibility study of a merge between SprogTeknologisk Ordbase (STO), which contains morphological and syntactic information, and DanNet, which is a Danish WordNet containing semantic information in terms of synonym sets and semantic relations. The aim of the merge is to develop a richer, composite resource which we believe will have a broader usage perspective than the two seen in isolation. In STO, the organizing principle is based on the observable syntactic features of a lemmas near context (labeled syntactic units or SynUs). In contrast, the basic unit in DanNet is constituted by semantic senses or - in wordnet terminology - synonym sets (synsets). The merge of the two resources is thus basically to be understood as a linking between SynUs and synsets. In the paper we discuss which parts of the merge can be performed semi-automatically and which parts require manual linguistic matching procedures. We estimate that this manual work will amount to approx. 39% of the lexicon material.- Anthology ID:
- L08-1349
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2008
- Address:
- Marrakech, Morocco
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Daniel Tapias
- Venue:
- LREC
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- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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- URL:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/435_paper.pdf
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- Cite (ACL):
- Bolette Sandford Pedersen, Anna Braasch, Lina Henriksen, Sussi Olsen, and Claus Povlsen. 2008. Merging a Syntactic Resource with a WordNet: a Feasibility Study of a Merge between STO and DanNet. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), Marrakech, Morocco. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- Merging a Syntactic Resource with a WordNet: a Feasibility Study of a Merge between STO and DanNet (Pedersen et al., LREC 2008)
- PDF:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/435_paper.pdf