A Bottom-up Comparative Study of EuroWordNet and WordNet 3.0 Lexical and Semantic Relations

Maria Teresa Pazienza, Armando Stellato, Alexandra Tudorache

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The paper presents a comparative study of semantic and lexical relations defined and adopted in WordNet and EuroWordNet. This document describes the experimental observations achieved through the analysis of data from different WordNet versions and EuroWordNet distributions for different languages, during the development of JMWNL (Java Multilingual WordNet Library), an extensible multilingual library for accessing WordNet-like resources in different languages and formats. The goal of this work was to realize an operative mapping between the relations defined in the two lexical resources and to unify library access and content navigation methods for both WordNet and EuroWordNet. The analysis focused on similarities, differences, semantic overlaps or inclusions, factual misinterpretations and inconsistencies between the intended and practical use of each single relation defined in these two linguistic resources. The paper details with examples the produced mapping, discussing required operations which implied merging, extending or simply keeping separate the examined relations
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L08-1358
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Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)
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May
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2008
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Marrakech, Morocco
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Daniel Tapias
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Maria Teresa Pazienza, Armando Stellato, and Alexandra Tudorache. 2008. A Bottom-up Comparative Study of EuroWordNet and WordNet 3.0 Lexical and Semantic Relations. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), Marrakech, Morocco. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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A Bottom-up Comparative Study of EuroWordNet and WordNet 3.0 Lexical and Semantic Relations (Pazienza et al., LREC 2008)
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