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Lexical coverage evaluation of large-scale multilingual semantic lexicons for twelve languages

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Publication date23/05/2016
Host publicationLREC 2016, Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
EditorsNicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
PublisherEuropean Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Pages2614-2619
Number of pages6
ISBN (print)9782951740891
<mark>Original language</mark>English
Event10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2016) - Portorož, Slovenia
Duration: 23/05/201628/05/2016

Conference

Conference10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2016)
Country/TerritorySlovenia
CityPortorož
Period23/05/1628/05/16

Conference

Conference10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2016)
Country/TerritorySlovenia
CityPortorož
Period23/05/1628/05/16

Abstract

The last two decades have seen the development of various semantic lexical resources such as WordNet (Miller, 1995) and the USAS semantic lexicon (Rayson et al., 2004), which have played an important role in the areas of natural language processing and corpus-based studies. Recently, increasing efforts have been devoted to extending the semantic frameworks of existing lexical
knowledge resources to cover more languages, such as EuroWordNet and Global WordNet. In this paper, we report on the construction of large-scale multilingual semantic lexicons for twelve languages, which employ the unified Lancaster semantic taxonomy and provide a multilingual lexical knowledge base for the automatic UCREL semantic annotation system (USAS). Our work contributes towards the goal of constructing larger-scale and higher-quality multilingual semantic lexical resources and developing corpus annotation tools based on them. Lexical coverage is an important factor concerning the quality of the lexicons and the performance of the corpus annotation tools, and in this experiment we focus on evaluating the lexical coverage achieved by the multilingual lexicons and semantic annotation tools based on them. Our evaluation shows that some semantic lexicons such as those for Finnish and Italian have achieved lexical coverage of over 90% while others need further expansion.

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