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EuroWordNet: A multilingual database with lexical semantic networks (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998)
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EuroWordNet: A multilingual database with lexical semantic networks (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998)
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This book describes the main objective of EuroWordNet, which is the
building of a multilingual database with lexical semantic networks
or wordnets for several European languages. Each wordnet in the
database represents a language-specific structure due to the unique
lexicalization of concepts in languages. The concepts are
inter-linked via a separate Inter-Lingual-Index, where equivalent
concepts across languages should share the same index item. The
flexible multilingual design of the database makes it possible to
compare the lexicalizations and semantic structures, revealing
answers to fundamental linguistic and philosophical questions which
could never be answered before. How consistent are lexical semantic
networks across languages, what are the language-specific
differences of these networks, is there a language-universal
ontology, how much information can be shared across languages?
First attempts to answer these questions are given in the form of a
set of shared or common Base Concepts that has been derived from
the separate wordnets and their classification by a
language-neutral top-ontology. These Base Concepts play a
fundamental role in several wordnets. Nevertheless, the database
may also serve many practical needs with respect to
(cross-language) information retrieval, machine translation tools,
language generation tools and language learning tools, which are
discussed in the final chapter. The book offers an excellent
introduction to the EuroWordNet project for scholars in the field
and raises many issues that set the directions for further research
in semantics and knowledge engineering.
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