Nunc Est Aestimandum: Towards an Evaluation of the Latin WordNet

English. This paper describes a preliminary expansion and assessment of the Latin WordNet for the purposes of the LiLa: Linking Latin project. The objective of this study is to better understand the implications of expanding and evaluating the sense coverage of the Latin WordNet, with a view to identifying the most effective method for its refinement and inclusion in the LiLa Knowledge Base of Latin resources. Our test empirically demonstrates the inadequacy for Latin of a common semi-automated approach of expansion and informs potential lines of improvement for the resource.1

[1]  Gregory R. Crane,et al.  The Making of Ancient Greek WordNet , 2014, LREC.

[2]  Marco Büchler,et al.  Using and Evaluating TRACER for an Index Fontium Computatus of the Summa contra Gentiles of Thomas Aquinas , 2018, CLiC-it.

[3]  G. Lakoff,et al.  Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind , 1988 .

[4]  Greta Franzini,et al.  The LiLa Knowledge Base of Linguistic Resources and NLP Tools for Latin , 2019, LDK.

[5]  Gian Biagio Conte,et al.  Il dizionario della lingua latina , 2000 .

[6]  J. Fleiss.  Measuring nominal scale agreement among many raters. , 1971 .

[7]  Marco Passarotti,et al.  Nomen Omen. Enhancing the Latin Morphological Analyser Lemlat with an Onomasticon , 2016, LaTeCH@ACL.

[8]  M. McHugh.  Interrater reliability: the kappa statistic , 2012, Biochemia medica.

[9]  G. Lakoff,et al.  Metaphors We Live by , 1981 .

[10]  William O. H. Freund,et al.  Harpers' Latin dictionary : A new Latin dictionary founded on the translation of Freund's Latin-German lexicon , 1879 .

[11]  Pavel Pecina,et al.  Validating and Improving the Czech WordNet via Lexico-Semantic Annotation of the Prague Dependency Treebank , 2008 .

[12]  Olivier Bodenreider,et al.  Evaluation of WordNet as a source of lay knowledge for molecular biology and genetic diseases: A feasibility study , 2003, MIE.

[13]  Daniel Jurafsky,et al.  Learning Syntactic Patterns for Automatic Hypernym Discovery , 2004, NIPS.

[14]  Paolo Rosso,et al.  On the evaluation and improvement of Arabic WordNet coverage and usability , 2013, Language Resources and Evaluation.

[15]  Christiane Fellbaum,et al.  Towards a Representation of Idioms in WordNet , 1998, WordNet@ACL/COLING.

[16]  George A. Miller,et al.  Introduction to WordNet: An On-line Lexical Database , 1990 .

[17]  Piek Vossen,et al.  EuroWordNet: general document , 2002 .

[18]  Pushpak Bhattacharyya,et al.  Automatic Evaluation of Wordnet Synonyms and Hypernyms , 2008 .

[19]  John C. Traupman,et al.  Oxford Latin Dictionary , 1969 .