TempoWordNet (TWn) has recently been proposed as an extension of WordNet, where each synset is augmented with its temporal connotation: past, present, future or atemporal. However, recent uses of TWn show contrastive results and motivate the construction of a more reliable resource. For that purpose, we propose an iterative strategy that temporally extends glosses based on TWn to obtain a poten...

The diachronic study of the permanent WordNet sense keys reveals that the WordNet synonym sets have stayed very stable through every version of the lexical database since 1.5 (1995), even though the synset identifiers continually changed. In particular, contrary to expectations, 94.5% of the WordNet 1.5 synsets still persisted in the latest 2012 version, compared to only 89.2% of the correspond...

In this work, we present a set of lemma-level sentiment lexicons for English, Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Galician. These lexicons are layered, allowing to trade off between the amount of available words and the accuracy of the estimations. The lexicons have been automatically generated from an improved version of SentiWordNet, a very popular resource which contains estimations of the positivi...

This paper proposes an automatic approach to build Chinese emotion lexicon based on WordNet-Affect which is a widely-used English emotion lexicon resource developed on WordNet. The approach consists of three steps, namely translation, filtering and extension. Initially, all English words in WordNet-Affect synsets are translated into Chinese words. Thereafter, with the help of Chinese synonyms d...

This paper presents the general architecture of the TMEKO protocol (Tutoring Methodology for Enriching the Kyoto Ontology) that guides non-expert users through the process of creating mappings from domain wordnet synsets to a shared ontology by answering natural language questions. TMEKO will be part of a Wiki-like community platform currently developed in the Kyoto project (http://www.kyoto-pr...

This paper presents our relations-oriented approach to the shared task on lexical access in language production, as well as the results we obtained. We relied mainly on the semantic and lexical relations between words as they are recorded in the Princeton WordNet, although also considering co-occurrence in the Google n-gram corpus. After the end of the shared task we continued working on the sy...

Abstract This study investigates ‘repetition’ in the English translation of the Arabic Novel, Adrift on the Nile (1993). It aims to explore the communicative functions of ‘repetition’ and to see if these functions have been maintained or lost in the process of translating the Novel. In addition, it seeks to find the translation strategies used in rendering ‘repetition’. To achieve this aim, a d...

Data for the initial gene synonym dictionary was collected from publicly available databases, e.g. LocusLink (Pruitt et al., 2000), FlyBase, or UniProt (Apweiler et al., 2004). In addition to primary gene symbols and names, when known, this initial dictionary also contained alternative synonyms and orthographic variants. Although genome databases, were the principal sources of primary symbols a...

Now a days, the World Wide Web is the collection of large amount of information which is increasing day by day. For this increasing amount of information, there is a need for efficient and effective indexing structure. Indexing in search engines has become the major issue for improving the performance of Web search engines, so that the most relevant web documents are retrieved in minimum possib...

Genomic IR, characterized by its highly specific information need, severe synonym and polysemy problem, long term name and rapid growing literature size, is challenging IR community. In this paper, we are focused on addressing the synonym and polysemy issue under the language modeling framework. Unlike the ways translation model and traditional query expansion techniques approach to this issue,...