In this paper we present an automatic, language-independent approach to extend an existing wordnet by recycling existing freely available bilingual resources, such as machine-readable dictionaries and on-line encyclopaedias. The approach is applied to Slovene and French. The words extracted from the bilingual resources are assigned one or several synset ids based on a classifier that relies on ...

The integration of linguistic and domain-oriented knowledge resources is a common task in many current projects with NLP objectives. WordNet and EuroWordNet offer large lexical resources for such purposes. Nevertheless, their exploitation in conjunction with specialized knowledge is still a non-trivial task. We propose to use fuzzy ontologies, which combine Fuzzy Logic theory and Description Lo...

WordNet is a large lexical resource expressing distinct concepts in a language. Synset is a basic building block of the WordNet. In this paper, we introduce a web based lexicographer's interface ‘Synskarta’ which is developed to create synsets from source language to target language with special reference to Sanskrit WordNet. We focus on introduction and implementation of Synskarta and how it c...

This paper explores the automatic construction of a multilingual Lexical Knowledge Base from pre-existing lexical resources. We present a new and robust approach for linking already existing lexical/semantic hierarchies. We used a constraint satisfaction algorithm (relaxation labeling) to select -among all the candidate translations proposed by a bilingual dictionarythe right English WordNet sy...

In this paper, a new semantic-based extractive summary methodology is put forward. The approach makes use of WordNet synset to obtain sentence semantic similarity. The scoring function is expressed as a linear combination of two features: the query-independent feature and query-related feature. An efficient scoring function of considering historical information for the update summarization task...

This paper examines the problem of finding articles in Wikipedia to match noun synsets in WordNet. The motivation is that these articles enrich the synsets with much more information than is already present in WordNet. Two methods are used. The first is title matching, following redirects and disambiguation links. The second is information retrieval over the set of articles. The methods are eva...

Summarization of spoken conversations is a challenging task, since it requires deep understanding of dialogs. Abstractive summarization techniques rely on linking the summary sentences to sets of original conversation sentences, i.e. communities. Unfortunately, such linking information is rarely available or requires trained annotators. We propose and experiment automatic community creation usi...

The diachronic study of the permanent WordNet sense keys reveals that the WordNet synonym sets have stayed very stable through every version of the lexical database since 1.5 (1995), even though the synset identifiers continually changed. In particular, contrary to expectations, 94.5% of the WordNet 1.5 synsets still persisted in the latest 2012 version, compared to only 89.2% of the correspond...

Among the existing ontologies, the multilingual lexical ontologies have a special status. Structured in a similar way to standard ontologies, the lexical ones are distinguished by the fundamental requirement that each conceptualized entity is lexicalized by one or more synonymous words (a synset) of the natural language vocabulary. Multilingually aligned wordnets, such as EuroWordNet or BalkaNe...

A range of approaches to the representation of lexical semantics have been explored within Computational Linguistics. Two of the most popular are distributional and knowledgebased models. This paper proposes hybrid models of lexical semantics that combine the advantages of these two approaches. Our models provide robust representations of synonymous words derived from WordNet. We also make use ...