Abstract
In this paper LexikoNet, a large lexical ontology of German nouns is presented. Unlike GermaNet and the Princeton WordNet, LexikoNet has distinguished type and role hypernyms right from the outset and organizes those lexemes in a parallel, independent hierarchy. In addition to roles and types, LexikoNet uses meronymic and holonymic relations as well as the instance relation. LexikoNet is based on a conceptual hierarchy of currently 1,470 classes to which approximately 90,000 word senses taken from a large German monolingual dictionary, the W\"orterbuch der deutschen Gegenwartssprache (WDG), are attached. The conceptual classes provide a useful degree of abstraction for the lexicographic description of selectional restrictions, thus making LexikoNet a useful filtering tool for corpus based lexicographic analysis. LexikoNet is currently used in-house as a filter for lexicographic extraction tasks in the DWDS project. Furthermore, it is used as a classification tool of the words of the week provided for the newspaper Die ZEIT on www.zeit.de- Anthology ID:
- L06-1511
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2006
- Address:
- Genoa, Italy
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Aldo Gangemi, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Daniel Tapias
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- Language:
- URL:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/812_pdf.pdf
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Alexander Geyken and Norbert Schrader. 2006. LexikoNet - a lexical database based on type and role hierarchies. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06), Genoa, Italy. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- LexikoNet - a lexical database based on type and role hierarchies (Geyken & Schrader, LREC 2006)
- PDF:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/812_pdf.pdf