Unsupervised construction of a multilingual WordNet from parallel corpora

  • Authors:
  • Dimitar Kazakov;Ahmad R. Shahid

  • Affiliations:
  • University of York, Heslington, York, UK;University of York, Heslington, York, UK

  • Venue:
  • MCTLLL '09 Proceedings of the Workshop on Natural Language Processing Methods and Corpora in Translation, Lexicography, and Language Learning
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper outlines an approach to the unsupervised construction from unannotated parallel corpora of a lexical semantic resource akin to WordNet. The paper also describes how this resource can be used to add lexical semantic tags to the text corpus at hand. Finally, we discuss the possibility to add some of the predicates typical for WordNet to its automatically constructed multilingual version, and the ways in which the success of this approach can be measured.