Besides synsets and semantic relations, synset glosses are an important feature of wordnets. However, due to the required effort, their creation is sometimes left undone. This happens in Onto.PT, a Portuguese wordnet created automatically, which does not have glosses. In our work, we exploited Portuguese dictionaries to automatically assign definitions to the synsets of Onto.PT. For this purpos...

In SENSEVAL-3, CL Research participated in four tasks: English all-words, English lexical sample, disambiguation of WordNet glosses, and automatic labeling of semantic roles. This participation was performed within the development of CL Research’s Knowledge Management System, which massively tags texts with syntactic, semantic, and discourse characterizations and attributes. This System is full...

Many natural language processing tasks, such as word sense disambiguation, knowledge acquisition, information retrieval, use semantically tagged corpora. Till recently, these corpus-based systems relied on text manually annotated with semantic tags; but the massive human intervention in this process has become a serious impediment in building robust systems. In this paper, we present AutoASC, a...

WordNet represents a cornerstone in the Computational Linguistics field, linking words to meanings (or senses) through a taxonomical representation of synsets, i.e., clusters of words with an equivalent meaning in a specific context often described by few definitions (or glosses) and examples. Most of the approaches to the Word Sense Disambiguation task fully rely on these short texts as a sour...

A considerable amount of research has already established that academic writing is an interactive accomplishment, the success which largely depends on appropriate writer-reader relationship. Yet, nature this relationship been subject few studies. Also scarce are studies how writers address needs their readers and so, through elaboration, manage interactions with them. Drawing a corpus 68 articl...

Abstract An overlooked fragmentary Latin text preserved in the Corpus of Roman Land Surveyors proves to be a translation lost branch Aratean commentary tradition. Stripped classicizing veneer mistakenly applied by earlier editors, fragment can recognized as work an unknown and inept late-antique Translator, perhaps working within generation fragment’s earliest manuscript witness, Codex Arcerian...