On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 03:24:09PM +0000, Francis Tyers wrote: > El dt 05 de 07 de 2011 a les 16:49 +0200, en/na Mikel Forcada va > escriure: > > Hi there, > > > 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.. > > Lemmas as such aren't represented as such in Apertium dictionaries. They > > are part of the lexical forms (one could say that the lemma is the > > material from the beginning of the lexical form up to where the first > > part-of-speech tag appears. For instance, for surface form "thought" an > > English dictionary would derive the lexical forms "thought<n><sg>" and > > "think<vblex>...". The lemmas would then be "thought" and "think". There > > is a attribute lm="...." in some entries, but it is optional. > > > I believe there are already lemma attributes, such as the word class of > > > the lemma: noun, verb, adjective, adverb etc. > > Not for lemmas. Lemma information is encoded either as the content of > > the element (see above). Part of speech as well as other morphological > > information is encoded as attributes of the <s> (symbol element). > > > 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. > > Which language pair(s) are you working with ? Is it really necessary ?
sv-da. I cannot get further with my work without such features - at least in a rudymentary form. I think it would be fun. Anyway there are of cause problems with homonyms in swedish and danish that could be better solved with more intelligent selection machinery. I have about 40000 new swedish words that I have used quite some time on and they should not damage the already existing work. > > > 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? > > I think the attribute lm="...." could be stretched a bit to have any > > value, which could be used to identify the lemma in another structure > > which could contain all of these (for instance, giving an XPath to > > another XML file containing all the desired information). > > > > Perhaps it would be better to have some kind of new general purpose > > attribute that could be used to attach *standoff* information of this > > kind to any entry <e>. > > I think that might be nice... also for, for example verb valency or > other features that we don't necessarily want to represent with tags. But maybe we can just do it with tags. Is it possible to add arbitrary tags? > > Fran is working on lexical selection and I'm sure his opinion would be > > interesting to read! > > Could also use the attribute 'c' for comment. I think it would be misleading to call it a comment. Maybe <a> - attribute? > > in the instance that a word has the same lemma/pos/gender and different > paradigms/declensions, I use a pseudo lemma, for example from Russian: > > <e lm="????????"><i>????????</i><par n="????????__n_m_nn"/></e> > <e lm="????????"><p><l>????????</l><r>????????:1</r></p><par > n="??????__n_m_aa"/></e> I would then still need a way to disambiguate and chose the right one. best regards Keld ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
