From word sense naming to vocabulary augmentation in Papillon

In the framework of the Papillon project, there are acceptions that are not lexicalized in a given language. They correspond at best to some hypernyms. Moreover, in order to easily supervise a translation process, we would like to be able to name meanings instead of referring to definitions by numbers. Dictionaries define words using a ”genus + differentia” approach and can be exploited for new compound extraction. This approach is relates for various research efforts in sense naming. The conceptual vector model (CVM) aim to represent meanings in a non lexical way and vectors are calculated through the analyses of multiple dictionary resources. The following article describes how our work on sense naming can be easily applied to the Papillon project and could offer simultaneously a lexical augmentation approach, a disambiguation checking process and a new lexical resource. Using this information, an automatic process helps building a mixed lexical and acception network.