Building wordnets with multi-word expressions from parallel corpora

In this paper we present a method for enlarging wordnets focusing on multi-word terms and utilising data from parallel corpora. Our approach is validated using the Galician and Portuguese wordnets. The multi-word candidates obtained in this experiment were manually validated, obtaining a 73.2% accur...

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Main Author: Simões, Alberto (author)
Other Authors: Gomez Guinovart, Xavier (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11110/1894
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:ciencipca.ipca.pt:11110/1894
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Summary:In this paper we present a method for enlarging wordnets focusing on multi-word terms and utilising data from parallel corpora. Our approach is validated using the Galician and Portuguese wordnets. The multi-word candidates obtained in this experiment were manually validated, obtaining a 73.2% accuracy for the Galician language and a 75.5% for the Portuguese language