Abstract
In this article, we present the basic ideas of creating a new information-rich lexical database of Dutch, called Cornetto, that is interconnected with corresponding English synsets and a formal ontology. The Cornetto database is based on two existing electronic dictionaries - the Referentie Bestand Nederlands (RBN) and the Dutch wordnet (DWN). The former holds FrameNet-like information for Dutch and the latter is structured as the English wordnet. In Cornetto, three different collections are maintained for lexical units, synsets and ontology terms.
The database interlinks the three collections and aims at clarifying the relations between them. The organization and work processes of the project are briefly introduced.
We also describe the design and implementation of new tools prepared for the lexicographic work on the Cornetto project. The tools are based on the DEB development platform and behave as special dictionary clients for the well-known DEBVisDic wordnet editor and browser.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Horák, A., et al.: First version of new client-server wordnet browsing and editing tool. In: Proceedings of the Third International WordNet Conference - GWC 2006, Jeju, South Korea, Masaryk University, Brno, pp. 325–328 (2006)
Fillmore, C., Baker, C., Sato, H.: Framenet as a ’net’. In: Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2004), Lisbon, ELRA, vol. 4, pp. 1091–1094 (2004)
Vossen, P. (ed.): EuroWordNet: a multilingual database with lexical semantic networks for European Languages. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht (1998)
Maks, I., Martin, W., de Meerseman, H.: RBN Manual (1999)
Niles, I., Pease, A.: Linking lexicons and ontologies: Mapping WordNet to the suggested upper merged ontology. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering, pp. 412–416 (2003)
Cruse, D.: Lexical semantics. University Press, Cambridge (1986)
Miller, G., Fellbaum, C.: Semantic networks of english. Cognition (October 1991)
Daudé, J., Padró, L., Rigau, G.: Wordnet mappings, the Meaning project (2007), http://www.upc.es/~nlp/tools/mapping.html
Daudé, J., Padró, L., Rigau, G.: Validation and tuning of wordnet mapping techniques. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2003), Borovets, Bulgaria (2003)
Vossen, P.: The Cornetto project web site (2007), http://www.let.vu.nl/onderzoek/projectsites/cornetto/start.htm
Genesereth, M.R., Fikes, R.E. (eds.): Knowledge Interchange Format, Version 3.0, Reference Manual. Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA (1992), http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/knowledge-sharing/kif/
Horák, A., et al.: New clients for dictionary writing on the DEB platform. In: DWS 2006: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Dictionary Writings Systems, Italy, pp. 17–23. Lexical Computing Ltd, U.K (2006)
Chaudhri, A.B., Rashid, A., Zicari, R. (eds.): XML Data Management: Native XML and XML-Enabled Database Systems. Addison-Wesley, Reading (2003)
Feldt, K.: Programming Firefox: Building Rich Internet Applications with Xul. O’Reilly (2007)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Horák, A., Vossen, P., Rambousek, A. (2008). A Distributed Database System for Developing Ontological and Lexical Resources in Harmony. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4919. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78135-6_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78135-6_1
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-78134-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-78135-6
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)