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Exploring interoperability of language resources: the case of cross-lingual semi-automatic enrichment of wordnets

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In this paper we present an application fostering the integration and interoperability of computational lexicons, focusing on the particular case of mutual linking and cross-lingual enrichment of two wordnets, the ItalWordNet and Sinica BOW lexicons. This is intended as a case-study investigating the needs and requirements of semi-automatic integration and interoperability of lexical resources, in the view of developing a prototype web application to support the GlobalWordNet Grid initiative.

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  1. A similar tool, but more tailored to the collaborative creation of lexicons for endangered languages, is SHAWEL (Gulrajani and Harrison 2002).

  2. A similar approach to large-scale enrichment of lexical knowledge bases, although not conceived in a web-service perspective, is the one described in Atserias et al. (2004).

  3. In this scenario the various wordnets reside over distributed servers and can be queried through web service interfaces.

  4. For a more detailed description of the procedure, including how different possible mappings among synsets with equal probabilities are handled through human evaluation, see Soria et al. (2006a, b).

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  1. Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, Pisa, Italy

    Claudia Soria, Monica Monachini, Francesca Bertagna & Nicoletta Calzolari

  2. Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan

    Chu-Ren Huang & Shu-Kai Hsieh

  3. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Chu-Ren Huang

  4. Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR, Pisa, Italy

    Andrea Marchetti & Maurizio Tesconi

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Soria, C., Monachini, M., Bertagna, F. et al. Exploring interoperability of language resources: the case of cross-lingual semi-automatic enrichment of wordnets. Lang Resources & Evaluation 43, 87–96 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-009-9082-3

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