2011/7/5 Keld Jørn Simonsen <[email protected]>: > Hi > > I would like to attach attributes to lemmas. Only a few but maybe there > could be more, so a kind of introducing an attribute name would be nice, > instead of having a predefined set of attribute names.. > > I believe there are already lemma attributes, such as the word class of > the lemma: noun, verb, adjective, adverb etc. > > what I have in mind is to attach data from wordnet, such as sense, > hypernym, hyponum, holonym, meromnym, and also combine it with the > Swedish SALDO attributes of father and mother relations. > > The idea is then to choose a sense of a homonym based on the shortest > distance to maybe the previous and following five words. > > a lemma may have more than one sense. Eg 'nut' may mean several things > such as the offspring of a plant, nuts and bolts, and testicles. > > Is this easy to do? How do I do it?
The question you're not asking is 'is it worth doing?' Mixing Wordnet into MT was quite popular in the late 90s. The only mention I've seen of wordnet in relation to MT published in the past 10 years was a call for a round table discussion on the topic of 'we all know wordnet is not useful for MT, but is it because we're not using it right?'. Wordnet was mostly built by lexicographers and ontologists, and continues to be an excellent resource for those uses. Aside from that, in NLP, the only place I'm aware of its use is in Word Sense Disambiguation, and even there, it's mainly used as a standard index of senses, and not for its word relationships. And even there, it's starting to be overtaken by Wikipedia. (As I have a nasty habit of coming across as mocking, whether I mean to be or not, I'd like to add that the reason I know this is because I had similar ideas and wasted a few months on it.) -- <Sefam> Are any of the mentors around? <jimregan> yes, they're the ones trolling you ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
