Improving wordnets for under-resourced languages using machine translation
Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja Arcan, Mihael McCrae, John P.
Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja
Arcan, Mihael
McCrae, John P.
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2018-01-08
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Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja, Arcan, Mihael, & McCrae, John P. (2018). Improving wordnets for under-resourced languages using machine translation. Paper presented at the GWC 2018, The 9th Global WordNet Conference, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, 8 – 12 January.
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Wordnets are extensively used in natural language processing, but the current approaches for manually building a wordnet from scratch involves large research groups for a long period of time, which are typically not available for under-resourced languages. Even if wordnet-like resources are available for under-resourced languages, they are often not easily accessible, which can alter the results of applications using these resources. Our proposed method presents an expand approach for improving and generating wordnets with the help of machine translation. We apply our methods to improve and extend wordnets for the Dravidian languages, i.e., Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, which are severly under-resourced languages. We report evaluation results of the generated wordnet senses in term of precision for these languages. In addition to that, we carried out a manual evaluation of the translations for the Tamil language, where we demonstrate that our approach can aid in improving wordnet resources for under-resourced Dravidian languages.
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