On the automatic generation of intermediate logic forms for wordnet glosses

  • Authors:
  • Rodrigo Agerri;Anselmo Peñas

  • Affiliations:
  • Vicomtech Research Centre, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain;NLP & IR Group UNED, Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • CICLing'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper presents an automatically generated Intermediate Logic Form of WordNet's glosses. Our proposed logic form includes neo-Davidsonian reification in a simple and flat syntax close to natural language. We offer a comparison with other semantic representations such as those provided by Hobbs and Extended WordNet. The Intermediate Logic Forms are straightforwardly obtained from the output of a pipeline consisting of a part-of-speech tagger, a dependency parser and our own Intermediate Logic Form generator (all freely available tools). We apply the pipeline to the glosses of WordNet 3.0 to obtain a lexical resource ready to be used as knowledge base or resource for a variety of tasks involving some kind of semantic inference. We present a qualitative evaluation of the resource and discuss its possible application in Natural Language Understanding.