Memorias de investigación
Communications at congresses:
Leveraging RDF Graphs for Crossing Multiple Bilingual Dictionaries
Year:2016

Research Areas
  • Information technology and adata processing

Information
Abstract
The experiments presented here exploit the properties of the Apertium RDF Graph, principally cycle density and nodes' degree, to automatically generate new translation relations between words, and therefore to enrich existing bilingual dictionaries with new entries. Currently, the Apertium RDF Graph includes data from 22 Apertium bilingual dictionaries and constitutes a large unified array of linked lexical entries and translations that are available and accessible on the Web (http://linguistic.linkeddata.es/apertium/). In particular, its graph structure allows for interesting exploitation opportunities, some of which are addressed in this paper. Two experiments are reported: in the first one, the original EN-ES translation set was removed from the Apertium RDF Graph and a new EN-ES version was generated. The results were compared against the previously removed EN-ES data and against the Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary. In the second experiment, a new non-existent EN-FR translation set was generated. In this case the results were compared against a converted wiktionary English-French file. The results we got are really good and perform well for the extreme case of correlated polysemy. This led us to address the possibility to use cycles and nodes degree to identify potential oddities in the source data. If cycle density proves efficient when considering potential targets, we can assume that in dense graphs nodes with low degree may indicate potential errors.
International
Si
Congress
10th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'16)
960
Place
Portoro? (Slovenia)
Reviewers
Si
ISBN/ISSN
978-2-9517408-9-1
Start Date
23/05/2016
End Date
28/05/2016
From page
868
To page
876
Proc. of 10th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'16)
Participants
  • Autor: Marta Villegas Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  • Autor: Maite Melero Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  • Autor: Jorge Gracia Del Rio UPM
  • Autor: Nuria Bel Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Ontology Engineering Group
  • Departamento: Inteligencia Artificial