| Del Gratta R., Frontini F., Monachini M., Quochi V., Rubino F., Abrate M., Lo Duca A. L-LEME: an Automatic Lexical Merger based on the LMF Standard. In: LREC 2012 - Language Resources and Evaluation (Istanbul, 2012). Proceedings, pp. 31 - 40. Núria Bel - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; Maria Gavrilidou - ILSP/Athena R.C., Athens, Greece; Monica Monachini - CNR-ILC, Pisa, Italy; Valeria Quochi - CNR-ILC, Pisa, Italy; Laura Rimell - University of Cambridge, UK, 2012. |
| Abstract (English) |
The present paper describes LMF LExical MErger (L-LEME), an architecture to combine two lexicons in order to obtain new resource(s). L-LEME relies on standards, thus exploiting the benefits of the ISO Lexical Markup Framework (LMF) to ensure interoperability. L-LEME is meant to be dynamic and heavily adaptable: it allows the users to configure it to meet their specific needs. The L-LEME architecture is composed of two main modules: the Mapper, which takes in input two lexicons A and B and a set of user-defined rules and instructions to guide the mapping process (Directives D) and gives in output all matching entries. The algorithm also calculates a cosine similarity score. The Builder takes in input the previous results, a set of Directives D1 and produces a new LMF lexicon C. The Directives allow the user to define its own building rules and different merging scenarios. L-LEME is applied to a specific concrete task within the PANACEA project, namely the merging of two Italian SubCategorization Frame (SCF) lexicons. The experiment is interesting in that A and B have different philosophies behind, being A built by human introspection and B automatically extracted. Ultimately, L-LEME has interesting repercussions in many language technology applications. | |
| Subject | Language Technologies Lexicon Merging LMF Standard Similarity Score H.3.1 Linguistic processing | |
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