The chicken-and-egg problem in wordnet design: synonymy, synsets and constitutive relations

Maziarz, Marek

The chicken-and-egg problem in wordnet design: synonymy, synsets and constitutive relations

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Maziarz, Marek; Piasecki, Maciej and Szpakowicz, Stanisław, 2013, The chicken-and-egg problem in wordnet design: synonymy, synsets and constitutive relations, CLARIN-PL Repository, http://hdl.handle.net/11321/991.

Autorzy

Maziarz, Marek ; Piasecki, Maciej oraz Szpakowicz, Stanisław

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11321/991

Data

2013-04-18

Typ

languageDescription ,

text

Języki

English

Opis

Wordnets are built of synsets, not of words. A synset consists of words. Synonymy is a relation between words. Words go into a synset because they are synonyms. Later, a wordnet treats words as synonymous because they belong in the same synset. . . Such circularity, a well-known problem, poses a practical difficulty in wordnet construction, notably when it comes to maintaining consistency. We propose to make a wordnet a net of words or, to be more precise, lexical units. We discuss our assumptions and present their implementation in a steadily growing Polish wordnet. A small set of constitutive relations allows us to construct synsets automatically out of groups of lexical units with the same connectivity. Our analysis includes a thorough comparative overview of systems of relations in several influential wordnets. The additional synset-forming mechanisms include stylistic registers and verb aspect.

Wydawca

Springer (The Netherlands)

Słowa kluczowe

constitutive relations

aspect

register