Finding a Location for a New Word in WordNet

Paula Pääkkö; Krister Linden

Finding a Location for a New Word in WordNet

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Abstract

FinnWordNet is a Finnish wordnet which complies with the structure of the Princeton WordNet. It was created by translating all the words in Princeton WordNet. It is open source and contains over 117 000 synsets. We are now testing different methods in order to improve and expand the content of FinnWordNet. Since wordnets are structured ontologies, a location for a word in FinnWordNet can bepinpointed by its relations to other words. To us, finding a location for a word therefore means finding a hyperonym, a hyponym or a synonym for the word.This article describes some methods for finding a location for a new word in FinnWordNet. Our methods include searching for multiword terms, compounds and lexico-syntactic patterns. Testing shows that with a few simple methods, we were able to find an indicator of the location for 83.2% of new words. Out of the new synonym pairs we tested, we were able to find an indication for 86.7%.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Global Wordnet Conference
Number of pages	8
Place of Publication	Matsue, Japan
Publication date	9 Jan 2012
Publication status	Published - 9 Jan 2012
MoE publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	Global Wordnet Conference - Matsue, Japan Duration: 9 Jan 2012 → 13 Jan 2012

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6121 Languages

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