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Building a Large Scale Lexical Ontology for Portuguese Nuno Seco Linguateca Node of Coimbra http://linguateca.dei.uc.pt Agenda Motivations Goals Ontology Extraction Ontology Evaluation Study the Systematicity of Polysemy in the Lexicon using the ontology. What has been done so far… Motivation Communication (in natural language) is a knowledge hungry task. Grammatical knowledge (e.g., SVO, VSO, …) Cultural knowledge Common sense knowledge If computers are to do NLP they need knowledge. Motivation Some properties complicate the automatic processing: Metaphorical nature Context dependent Vagueness Creative Diachronic … but these properties are the result of human usage, and makes language use easy by humans! Motivation So what we need is a resource* that can be used by a machine and makes explicit the effect of these properties. Motivation Two strategies are usually followed: Manual construction WordNet Cyc HowNet (Semi) Automatic construction MindNet KnowItAll PAPEL (Palavras Associadas Porto Editora Linguateca) Motivation So what can be done with a lexical ontology? Information Retrieval Machine Translation Question Answering Semantic Similarity Judgments Concept Creation / Explanation Goals Extract the semantic organization of the pt. lexicon. (Ontology Learning, Information Extraction). Evaluate the knowledge extracted defining a methodology. Study the specific issue of systematic polysemy in Portuguese. Compare our model to other models of the Portuguese language (WordNet.PT and WordNet.BR). Make the resource publicly available. Extracting the Structure of the Lexicon Can be thought of as a reverse engineering process. What relations? Hyponymy; Hyperonymy Saxofone - instrumento musical de sopro, feito de metal, recurvo, com chaves e embocadura de palheta is_a(saxofone, instrumento musical) Meronymy; Holonomy rim – org?o que tem a a fun??o de… org?o – cada uma das partes do corpo… is_a(rim, org?o) part_of(org?o, body) - part_of(rim, body) What relations