This paper describes our participation to the English Girt Task of CLEF 2005 Campaign. A method for conceptual indexing based on WordNet is used. Both documents and queries are mapped onto WordNet. Identified concepts belonging to WordNet synsets are extracted from documents and queries and those having a single sense are expanded. All runs are carried out using a conceptual indexing approach. ...

After a long history of compilation of our own lexical resources, EDR Japanese/English Electronic Dictionary, and discussions with major players on development of various WordNets, Japanese National Institute of Information and Communications Technology started developing the Japanese WordNet in 2006 and will publicly release the first version, which includes both the synset in Japanese and the...

This document describes the participation of the SINAI Research Group in the 7 challenge on Recognition of Textual Entailment (RTE). Our approach extends the promising results obtained in the last campaing into a well know framework for textual entailment recognition known as EDITS. Although the proposed solution is modest, results encourage us in the use of Personalized Page Rank as a techniqu...

In this paper we focus on Spanish polarity classification in a corpus of hotel reviews (COAH) and we introduce a new lexical resource called CRiSOL. This new resource is built on the list of Spanish opinion words iSOL. CRiSOL appends to each word of iSOL the polarity value of the related synset of SentiWordNet. Due to the fact that SentiWordNet is not a Spanish linguistic resource, a Spanish ve...

Knowledge-based multilingual language processing benefits from having access to correctly established relations between semantic lexicons, such as the links between different WordNets. WordNet linking is a process that can be sped up by the use of computational techniques. Manual evaluations of the partly automatically established synonym set (synset) relations between Dutch and English in Corn...

The taxonomic reasons for regarding Lispe draperi Séguy, 1933, sp. rev., as a valid species instead of a synonym of Lispe tentaculata (De Geer, 1776) and for treating Lispe quaerens Villeneuve, 1936, syn. n., as a junior synonym of Lispe sericipalpis Stein, 1904 are given. A revised key for the Palaearctic members of the Lispe tentaculata species-group is given. Data on ecology, distribution an...