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Author(s): Meyer, M. Christian; Gurevych, Iryna
Title: To exhibit is not to loiter. A multilingual, sense-disambiguated Wiktionary for measuring verb similarity
In: Kay, Martin; Boitet, Christian (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012), Mumbai: The COLING 2012 Organizing Committee, 2012 , S. 1763--1780
URL: http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/C/C12/C12-1108.pdf
Publication Type: 4. Beiträge in Sammelbänden; Tagungsband/Konferenzbeitrag/Proceedings
Language: Englisch; Deutsch
Keywords: Beziehung; Computerlinguistik; Mehrsprachigkeit; Semantik; Sinn; Übersetzung; Vergleich; Wort; Wörterbuch
Abstract: We construct a new multilingual lexical resource from Wiktionary by disambiguating semantic
relations and translations. For this task, we propose and evaluate an automatic disambiguation
method that outperforms previous approaches significantly. We additionally introduce a method
for inferring new semantic relations based on the disambiguated translations. Our resource fills
the gap between expert-built resources suffering from high cost and small size and Wikipediabased
resources that are restricted to encyclopedic knowledge about nouns. We demonstrate
this by applying our new resource to measuring monolingual and cross-lingual verb similarity.
For the latter, our resource yields better results than Wikipedia and expert-built multilingual
wordnets. We make our final resource and the evaluation datasets publicly available.
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