Abstract
As part of a project to construct an interactive program which will encourage children to play with language by building jokes, we have developed a large lexical database, closely based on WordNet. As well as the standard WordNet information about part of speech, synonymy, hyponymy, etc, we have added phonetic representations and symbolic links allowing attachment of pictures. All information is represented in a relational database, allowing powerful searches using SQL via a Java API. The lexicon has a facility to label subsets of the lexicon with symbolic names, and we are working to incorporate some educationally relevant word lists as sublexicons. This should also allow us to improve the familiarity ratings which the lexicon assigns to words.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 5th edition of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation |
| Subtitle of host publication | LREC Proceedings 2006 |
| Publisher | European Language Resources Association |
| Pages | 1738-1741 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - May 2006 |
| Event | 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2006 - Genoa, Italy Duration: 22 May 2006 → 28 May 2006 http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2006/ (Link to conference information) |
Conference
| Conference | 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2006 |
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| Abbreviated title | LREC 2006 |
| Country/Territory | Italy |
| City | Genoa |
| Period | 22/05/06 → 28/05/06 |
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ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Education
- Library and Information Sciences
- Linguistics and Language
- Language and Linguistics