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Nordic and Baltic wordnets aligned and compared through “WordTies”

Pedersen S. Pedersen
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Lars Borin
University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Markus Forsberg
University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Neeme Kahusk
University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Krister Lindén
University of Helsinki, Finland

Jyrki Niemi
University of Helsinki, Finland

Niklas Nisbeth
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Lars Nygaard
Kaldera Language Technology, Oslo, Norway

Heili Orav
University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Hiríkur Rögnvaldsson
University of Iceland, Iceland

Mitchel Seaton
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Kadri Vider
University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Kaarlo Voionmaa
University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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Published in: Proceedings of the 19th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA 2013); May 22-24; 2013; Oslo University; Norway. NEALT Proceedings Series 16

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 85:16, p. 147-162

NEALT Proceedings Series 16:16, p. 147-162

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Published: 2013-05-17

ISBN: 978-91-7519-589-6

ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)

Abstract

During the last few years; extensive wordnets have been built locally for the Nordic and Baltic languages applying very different compilation strategies. The aim of the present investigation is to consolidate and examine these wordnets through an alignment via Princeton Core WordNet and thereby compare them along the measures of taxonomical structure; synonym structure; and assigned relations to approximate to a best practice. A common web interface and visualizer “WordTies” is developed to facilitate this purpose. Four bilingual wordnets are automatically processed and evaluated exposing interesting differences between the wordnets. Even if the alignments are judged to be of a good quality; the precision of the translations vary due to considerable differences in hyponymy depth and interpretation of the synset. All seven monolingual and four bilingual wordnets as well as WordTies have been made available via META-SHARE through the META-NORD project.

Keywords

Wordnets; multilingual links; wordnet web interface; Nordic and Baltic languages; META-NORD.

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