The MWN.PT WordNet for Portuguese: Projection, Validation, Cross-lingual Alignment and Distribution

António Branco, Sara Grilo, Márcia Bolrinha, Chakaveh Saedi, Ruben Branco, João Silva, Andreia Querido, Rita de Carvalho, Rosa Gaudio, Mariana Avelãs, Clara Pinto

Abstract
The objective of the present paper is twofold, to present the MWN.PT WordNet and to report on its construction and on the lessons learned with it. The MWN.PT WordNet for Portuguese includes 41,000 concepts, expressed by 38,000 lexical units. Its synsets were manually validated and are linked to semantically equivalent synsets of the Princeton WordNet of English, and thus transitively to the many wordnets for other languages that are also linked to this English wordnet. To the best of our knowledge, it is the largest high quality, manually validated and cross-lingually integrated, wordnet of Portuguese distributed for reuse. Its construction was initiated more than one decade ago and its description is published for the first time in the present paper. It follows a three step <projection, validation with alignment, completion> methodology consisting on the manual validation and expansion of the outcome of an automatic projection procedure of synsets and their hypernym relations, followed by another automatic procedure that transferred the relations of remaining semantic types across wordnets of different languages.
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2020.lrec-1.598
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Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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May
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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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4859–4866
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English
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António Branco, Sara Grilo, Márcia Bolrinha, Chakaveh Saedi, Ruben Branco, João Silva, Andreia Querido, Rita de Carvalho, Rosa Gaudio, Mariana Avelãs, and Clara Pinto. 2020. The MWN.PT WordNet for Portuguese: Projection, Validation, Cross-lingual Alignment and Distribution. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 4859–4866, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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The MWN.PT WordNet for Portuguese: Projection, Validation, Cross-lingual Alignment and Distribution (Branco et al., LREC 2020)
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