A Major Wordnet for a Minority Language: Scottish Gaelic

Gábor Bella, Fiona McNeill, Rody Gorman, Caoimhin O Donnaile, Kirsty MacDonald, Yamini Chandrashekar, Abed Alhakim Freihat, Fausto Giunchiglia

Abstract
We present a new wordnet resource for Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic minority language spoken by about 60,000 speakers, most of whom live in Northwestern Scotland. The wordnet contains over 15 thousand word senses and was constructed by merging ten thousand new, high-quality translations, provided and validated by language experts, with an existing wordnet derived from Wiktionary. This new, considerably extended wordnet—currently among the 30 largest in the world—targets multiple communities: language speakers and learners; linguists; computer scientists solving problems related to natural language processing. By publishing it as a freely downloadable resource, we hope to contribute to the long-term preservation of Scottish Gaelic as a living language, both offline and on the Web.
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2020.lrec-1.342
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Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
May
Year:
2020
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Marseille, France
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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European Language Resources Association
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2812–2818
Language:
English
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Gábor Bella, Fiona McNeill, Rody Gorman, Caoimhin O Donnaile, Kirsty MacDonald, Yamini Chandrashekar, Abed Alhakim Freihat, and Fausto Giunchiglia. 2020. A Major Wordnet for a Minority Language: Scottish Gaelic. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 2812–2818, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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A Major Wordnet for a Minority Language: Scottish Gaelic (Bella et al., LREC 2020)
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