Enhancing the Japanese WordNet

  • Authors:
  • Francis Bond;Hitoshi Isahara;Sanae Fujita;Kiyotaka Uchimoto;Takayuki Kuribayashi;Kyoko Kanzaki

  • Affiliations:
  • NICT Language Infrastructure Group;NICT Language Infrastructure Group;NTT Communications Science Laboratory;NICT Language Infrastructure Group;NICT Language Infrastructure Group;NICT Language Translation Group

  • Venue:
  • ALR7 Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Asian Language Resources
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The Japanese WordNet currently has 51,000 synsets with Japanese entries. In this paper, we discuss three methods of extending it: increasing the cover, linking it to examples in corpora and linking it to other resources (SUMO and GoiTaikei). In addition, we outline our plans to make it more useful by adding Japanese definition sentences to each synset. Finally, we discuss how releasing the corpus under an open license has led to the construction of interfaces in a variety of programming languages.