Enchancing the Collaborative Interlingual Index for Digital Humanities: Cross-linguistic Analysis in the Domain of Theology

Laura Slaughter, Wenjie Wang, Luis Morgado Da Costa, Francis Bond

Abstract
We aim to support digital humanities work related to the study of sacred texts. To do this, we propose to build a cross-lingual wordnet within the do-main of theology. We target the Collaborative Interlingual Index (CILI) directly instead of each individual wordnet. The paper presents background for this proposal: (1) an overview of concepts relevant to theology and (2) a summary of the domain-associated issues observed in the Princeton WordNet (PWN). We have found that definitions for concepts in this domain can be too restrictive, inconsistent, and unclear. Necessary synsets are missing, with the PWN being skewed towards Christianity. We argue that tackling problems in a single domain is a better method for improving CILI. By focusing on a single topic rather than a single language, this will result in the proper construction of definitions, romanization/translation of lemmas, and also improvements in use of/creation of a cross-lingual domain hierarchy.
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2018.gwc-1.41
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Proceedings of the 9th Global Wordnet Conference
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January
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2018
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Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
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341–346
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Laura Slaughter, Wenjie Wang, Luis Morgado Da Costa, and Francis Bond. 2018. Enchancing the Collaborative Interlingual Index for Digital Humanities: Cross-linguistic Analysis in the Domain of Theology. In Proceedings of the 9th Global Wordnet Conference, pages 341–346, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Global Wordnet Association.
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