The goal of formalization, proposed in this paper, is to bring together, as near as possible, the theoretic linguistic problem of synonym conception and the computer linguistic methods based generally on empirical intuitive unjustified factors. Using the word vector representation we have proposed the geometric approach to mathematical modeling of synonym set (synset). The word embedding is bas...

Linked wordnets are invaluable linked lexical resources. Wordnet linking involves matching a particular synset (concept) in one wordnet to a synset in another wordnet. We have developed an automatic wordnet linking system that is divided into a number of stages. Starting with a synset in the first language (also referred to as the source language), our algorithm generates a list of candidate sy...

1 WordNet In 1978, George Miller started the development of a database with conceptual relations, as an implementation of a model of the mental lexicon. The database, called WordNet, was organized around the notion of a synset between which semantic relations are expressed. A synset is a set of words with the same part-of-speech that can be interchanged in a certain context. For example, {car; ...

The paper presents the detection of syntactic patterns in the Croatian WordNet synset definitions. The detection was performed in order to create unambiguous and consistent synset definitions in the future development of the Croatian WordNet. The rules are implemented in form of finite-state transducers and tested on already existing version of the Croatian WordNet. Results are presented using ...

WordNet is a large lexical database of English language, in which, nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets). Each synset expresses a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by both semantic and lexical relations. WordNet is essentially used for word sense disambiguation, information retrieval, and text translation. In this paper, we propose s...

This project report presents the results of an approach in which synsets for Slovene wordnet were induced automatically from parallel corpora and already existing wordnets. First, multilingual lexicons were obtained from word-aligned corpora and compared to the wordnets in various languages in order to disambiguate lexicon entries. Then appropriate synset ids were attached to Slovene entries fr...

The performance of object-based image retrieval systems remains unsatisfactory, as it relies highly on visual similarity and regularity among images of same semantic class. In order to retrieve images beyond their visual appearances, we propose a novel image presentation, i.e. bag of visual synset. A visual synset is defined as a probabilistic relevance-consistent cluster of visual words (quant...

This paper describes semi-automatic construction of Thai WordNet and the applied method for Asian wordNet. Based on the Princeton WordNet, we develop a method in generating a WordNet by using an existing bi-lingual dictionary. We align the PWN synset to a bilingual dictionary through the English equivalent and its part-of-speech (POS), automatically. Manual translation is also employed after th...

We examine the hypothesis that noun countability is consistent for a given word semantics by way of a series of experiments involving EuroWordNet and the English and Dutch languages. The basic method involves determining a default set of countabilities for each EuroWordNet synset based on countability-mapped words in that synset, and testing the match between these countabilities and those of h...