Rajendran S. Velayuthan
2022
IndoUKC: A Concept-Centered Indian Multilingual Lexical Resource
Nandu Chandran Nair
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Rajendran S. Velayuthan
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Yamini Chandrashekar
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Gábor Bella
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Fausto Giunchiglia
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
We introduce the IndoUKC, a new multilingual lexical database comprised of eighteen Indian languages, with a focus on formally capturing words and word meanings specific to Indian languages and cultures. The IndoUKC reuses content from the existing IndoWordNet resource while providing a new model for the cross-lingual mapping of lexical meanings that allows for a richer, diversity-aware representation. Accordingly, beyond a thorough syntactic and semantic cleaning, the IndoWordNet lexical content has been thoroughly remodeled in order to allow a more precise expression of language-specific meaning. The resulting database is made available both for browsing through a graphical web interface and for download through the LiveLanguage data catalogue.