Towards a principled approach to sense clustering – a case study of wordnet and dictionary senses in Danish

Bolette Sandford Pedersen; Manex Aguirrezabal Zabaleta; Sanni Nimb; Sussi Olsen; Ida Rørmann

Towards a principled approach to sense clustering – a case study of wordnet and dictionary senses in Danish

Bolette Sandford Pedersen, Manex Aguirrezabal Zabaleta, Sanni Nimb, Sussi Olsen, Ida Rørmann

Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics

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Abstract

Our aim is to develop principled methods for sense clustering which can make existing lexi-cal resources practically useful in NLP - not too fine-grained to be operational and yet fine-grained enough to be worth the trouble. Where traditional dictionaries have a highly structured sense inventory typically describing the vocabulary by means of main- and subsenses, wordnets are generally fine-grained and un-structured. We present a series of clustering and annotation experiments with 10 of the most polysemous nouns in Danish. We com-bine the structured information of a traditional Danish dictionary with the ontological types found in the Danish wordnet, DanNet. This constellation enables us to automatically clus-ter senses in a principled way and improve in-ter-annotator agreement and wsd performance.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of Global WordNet Conference 2018
Number of pages	6
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Global WordNet Association
Publication date	2018
ISBN (Electronic)	978-981-11-7087-4
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	Global WordNet Conference - Singapore, Singapore Duration: 8 Jan 2018 → 12 Jan 2018

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Conference	Global WordNet Conference
Country/Territory	Singapore
City	Singapore
Period	08/01/2018 → 12/01/2018

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Towards a principled approach to sense clustering – a case study of wordnet and dictionary senses in Danish. / Pedersen, Bolette Sandford ; Aguirrezabal Zabaleta, Manex; Nimb, Sanni et al.
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Pedersen, BS , Aguirrezabal Zabaleta, M, Nimb, S, Olsen, S & Rørmann, I 2018, Towards a principled approach to sense clustering – a case study of wordnet and dictionary senses in Danish. in Proceedings of Global WordNet Conference 2018. Global WordNet Association, Singapore, Global WordNet Conference, Singapore, Singapore, 08/01/2018. <http://compling.hss.ntu.edu.sg/events/2018-gwc/pdfs/gwc-2018-proceedings.pdf>

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