Building and Exploring Semantic Equivalences Resources

Gracinda Carvalho, David Martins de Matos, Vitor Rocio


Abstract
Language resources that include semantic equivalences at word level are common, and its usefulness is well established in text processing applications, as in the case of search. Named entities also play an important role for text based applications, but are not usually covered by the previously mentioned resources. The present work describes the WES base, Wikipedia Entity Synonym base, a freely available resource based on the Wikipedia. The WES base was built for the Portuguese Language, with the same format of another freely available thesaurus for the same language, the TeP base, which allows integration of equivalences both at word level and entity level. The resource has been built in a language independent way, so that it can be extended to different languages. The WES base was used in a Question Answering system, enhancing significantly its performance.
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L12-1373
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
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2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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2038–2042
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Gracinda Carvalho, David Martins de Matos, and Vitor Rocio. 2012. Building and Exploring Semantic Equivalences Resources. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 2038–2042, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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