Overview
This work describes the main objective of Euro WordNet, which is the building of a multilingual database with lexical semantic networks or wordnets for several European languages. Each wordnet in the database represents a language-specific structure due to the unique lexicalization of concepts in languages. The concepts are inter-linked via a separate Inter-Lingual-Index, where equivalent concepts across languages should share the same index item. The flexible multilingual design of the database makes it possible to compare the lexicalizations and semantic structures, revealing answers to fundamental linguistic and philosophical questions which could never be answered before. How consistent are lexical semantic networks across languages, what are the language-specific differences of these networks, is there a language-universal ontology, how much information can be shared across languages? First attempts to answer these questions are given in the form of a set of shared or common Base Concepts that has been derived from the separate wordnets and their classification by a language-neutral top-ontology. These Base Concepts play a fundamental role in several wordnets. The book offers an introduction to the Euro WordNet project for scholars in the field and raises many issues that set the directions for further research in semantics and knowledge engineering.
Full Product Details
Author: Piek Vossen
Publisher: Springer
Imprint: Springer
Edition: Reprinted from COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES, 32:2-3, 1999
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.970kg
ISBN: 9780792352952
ISBN 10: 0792352955
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 31 October 1998
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'[...]EuroWordNet is an essential resource for any research groups planning versions of WordNet for their own languages. With effort, they will find pragmatic solutions to most of the problems they are likely to encounter, and I would cdertainly recommend it to that specialist audience.' Natural Language Engineering, 9:4 (2003)
[...]EuroWordNet is an essential resource for any research groups planning versions of WordNet for their own languages. With effort, they will find pragmatic solutions to most of the problems they are likely to encounter, and I would cdertainly recommend it to that specialist audience.' Natural Language Engineering, 9: 4 (2003)
