PAPEL: A Dictionary-Based Lexical Ontology for Portuguese

  • Authors:
  • Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira;Diana Santos;Paulo Gomes;Nuno Seco

  • Affiliations:
  • Linguateca, Coimbra node, DEI - FCTUC, CISUC, Portugal;Linguateca, Oslo node, SINTEF ICT, Norway;Linguateca, Coimbra node, DEI - FCTUC, CISUC, Portugal;Linguateca, Coimbra node, DEI - FCTUC, CISUC, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • PROPOR '08 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper describes a project aimed at creating a lexical ontology extracted (semi) automatically from a large Portuguese general dictionary. Although using machine readable dictionaries to extract semantic information is not new, we believe this is the first attempt for the Portuguese language. The paper describes a (to be) freely available resource, dubbed PAPEL, explaining the process used and the tools developed, and illustrating it with one specific relation: Causation.