On the Utility of Automatically Generated Wordnets

de Melo, Gerard; Weikum, Gerhard

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On the Utility of Automatically Generated Wordnets

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de Melo, Gerard
Databases and Information Systems, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society;

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Weikum, Gerhard
Databases and Information Systems, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society;

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de Melo, G., & Weikum, G. (2007). On the Utility of Automatically Generated Wordnets. In A. Tanács, D. Csendes, V. Vincze, C. Fellbaum, & P. Vossen (Eds.), Fourth Global WordNet Conference (pp. 147-161). Szeged, Hungary: University of Szeged.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0027-AEC2-A

Abstract

Lexical resources modelled after the original Princeton WordNet are being compiled for a considerable number of languages, however most have yet to reach a comparable level of coverage. In this paper, we show that automatically built wordnets, created from an existing wordnet in conjunction with translation dictionaries, are a suitable alternative for many applications, despite the errors introduced by the automatic building procedure. Apart from analysing the resources directly, we conducted tests on semantic relatedness assessment and cross-lingual text classification with very promising results.