Towards the Automatic Merging of Lexical Resources: Automatic Mapping

Padró, Muntsa; Bel Rafecas, Núria; Necşulescu, Silvia

Towards the Automatic Merging of Lexical Resources: Automatic Mapping

Citation

Padró M, Bel N, Necsulescu S. Towards the Automatic Merging of Lexical Resources: Automatic Mapping. In: Angelova G, Bontcheva K, Mitkov R, Nikolov, N, editors. Proceedings: International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing ; 2011 Sep 12-14; Hissar, BG. Stroudsburg: ACL; 2011. p. 296-301

Abstract

Lexical Resources are a critical component for Natural Language Processing applications. However, the high cost of comparing and merging different resources has been a bottleneck to have richer resources with a broad range of potential uses for a significant number of languages.With the objective of reducing cost by/neliminating human intervention, we present a new method for automating the merging of resources,with special emphasis in what we call the mapping step. This mapping step, which converts the resources into a common format that allows latter the merging, is usually performed with huge manual effort and thus makes the whole process very costly. Thus, we propose a method to perform this mapping fully automatically. To test our method, we have addressed the merging of two verb subcategorization frame lexica for Spanish, The results/nachieved, that almost replicate human work, demonstrate the feasibility of the approach.