Extending a wordnet framework for simplicity and scalability
Pedro Fialho, Sérgio Curto, Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur
Abstract
The WordNet knowledge model is currently implemented in multiple software frameworks providing procedural access to language instances of it. Frameworks tend to be focused on structural/design aspects of the model thus describing low level interfaces for linguistic knowledge retrieval. Typically the only high level feature directly accessible is word lookup while traversal of semantic relations leads to verbose/complex combinations of data structures, pointers and indexes which are irrelevant in an NLP context. Here is described an extension to the JWNL framework that hides technical requirements of access to WordNet features with an essentially word/sense based API applying terminology from the official online interface. This high level API is applied to the original English version of WordNet and to an SQL based Portuguese lexicon, translated into a WordNet based representation usable by JWNL.- Anthology ID:
- L12-1187
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2012
- Address:
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3701–3705
- Language:
- URL:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/376_Paper.pdf
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Pedro Fialho, Sérgio Curto, Ana Cristina Mendes, and Luísa Coheur. 2012. Extending a wordnet framework for simplicity and scalability. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 3701–3705, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- Extending a wordnet framework for simplicity and scalability (Fialho et al., LREC 2012)
- PDF:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/376_Paper.pdf