Building a Multilingual Taxonomy of Olfactory Terms with Timestamps
Stefano Menini, Teresa Paccosi, Serra Sinem Tekiroğlu, Sara Tonelli
Abstract
Olfactory references play a crucial role in our memory and, more generally, in our experiences, since researchers have shown that smell is the sense that is most directly connected with emotions. Nevertheless, only few works in NLP have tried to capture this sensory dimension from a computational perspective. One of the main challenges is the lack of a systematic and consistent taxonomy of olfactory information, where concepts are organised also in a multi-lingual perspective. WordNet represents a valuable starting point in this direction, which can be semi-automatically extended taking advantage of Google n-grams and of existing language models. In this work we describe the process that has led to the semi-automatic development of a taxonomy for olfactory information in four languages (English, French, German and Italian), detailing the different steps and the intermediate evaluations. Along with being multi-lingual, the taxonomy also encloses temporal marks for olfactory terms thus making it a valuable resource for historical content analysis. The resource has been released and is freely available.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.lrec-1.429
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Marseille, France
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 4030–4039
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.429
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Stefano Menini, Teresa Paccosi, Serra Sinem Tekiroğlu, and Sara Tonelli. 2022. Building a Multilingual Taxonomy of Olfactory Terms with Timestamps. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 4030–4039, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
- Cite (Informal):
- Building a Multilingual Taxonomy of Olfactory Terms with Timestamps (Menini et al., LREC 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/2022.lrec-1.429.pdf