Derivational morphology links are created for the Wordnet Bahasa, a combined Indonesian and Malay online lexical dictionary (Nurril Hirfana, Suerya, & Bond, 2011). The focus was to link root words to affixed words as affixation is one of the more apparent word formation processes in Bahasa Melayu. MorphInd, an Indonesian morphological analyser (Larasati, Kubon, & Zeman, 2011), is used to breakd...

Using lexical semantic knowledge to solve natural language processing problems has been getting popular in recent years. Because semantic processing relies heavily on lexical semantic knowledge, the construction of lexical semantic databases has become urgent. WordNet is the most famous English semantic knowledge database at present; many researches of word sense disambiguation adopt it as a st...

This paper describes a Web service for accessing WordNet-type semantic lexicons. The central idea behind the service design is: given a query, the primary functionality of lexicon access is to present a partial lexicon by extracting the relevant part of the target lexicon. Based on this idea, we implemented the system as a RESTful Web service whose input query is specified by the access URI and...

“WordNet® is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptualsemantic and lexical relations.” (see the project’s web site http://wordnet.princeton.edu/ ) . WordNets have been develope...

This paper focuses on the automatic extraction of Arabic Named Entities (NEs) from the Arabic Wikipedia (AWP), their automatic attachment to Arabic WordNet (AWN) and their automatic link to Princeton's English WordNet (PWN). We briefly report on the current status of AWN, focusing on its rather limited NE coverage. Our proposal of automatic extension is then presented, applied and evaluated. Ke...

This paper presents a possible solution for the problem of integrating contextual knowledge in the WordNet database. Contextual structures are derived from three sources: (1) minimal contexts-in the form of semantic nets transformations of WordNet glosses; (2) dynamic contexts rendered by webs of lexico-semantic paths revealing textual implied information and (3) static contexts-represented by ...

Sinhala is one of the official languages of Sri Lanka and is used by over 19 million people. It belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages and its origins date back to at least 2000 years. It has developed into its current form over a long period of time with influences from a wide variety of languages including Tamil, Portuguese and English. As for any other language, a Wo...

In recent times, wordnets have become indispensable resources for Natural Language Processing. However, the creation of wordnets is a time consuming and manpower intensive proposition. This fact has led to attempts at quickly fixing a wordnet using text repositories such as the web and certain corpora, and also by translating an existing wordnet into another language. However, the results of su...

The objective of this paper is to present a method to automatically enrich WordNet with sub-trees of concepts in a given language domain. WordNet is then trimmed to reduce unnecessary ambiguity and singleton nodes. The process is based on the use of statistical method and linguistic processing to extract candidate domain terms. Multiword terms are semantically disambiguated and interpreted usin...