Abstract
In this article we present an exploratory approach to enrich a WordNet-like lexical ontology with the synonyms present in a standard monolingual Portuguese dictionary. The dictionary was converted from PDF into XML and senses were automatically identified and annotated. This allowed us to extract them, independently of definitions, and to create sets of synonyms (synsets). These synsets were then aligned with WordNet synsets, both in the same language (Portuguese) and projecting the Portuguese terms into English, Spanish and Galician. This process allowed both the addition of new term variants to existing synsets, as to create new synsets for Portuguese.- Anthology ID:
- L16-1426
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2016
- Address:
- Portorož, Slovenia
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 2682–2687
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/L16-1426
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Alberto Simões, Xavier Gómez Guinovart, and José João Almeida. 2016. Enriching a Portuguese WordNet using Synonyms from a Monolingual Dictionary. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 2682–2687, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- Enriching a Portuguese WordNet using Synonyms from a Monolingual Dictionary (Simões et al., LREC 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/paclic-22-ingestion/L16-1426.pdf