Mapping Arabic WordNet synsets to Wikipedia articles using monolingual and bilingual features

The alignment of WordNet and Wikipedia has received wide attention from researchers of computational linguistics, who are building a new lexical knowledge source or enriching the semantic information of WordNet entities. The main challenge of this alignment is how to handle the synonymy and ambiguity issues in the contents of two units from different sources. Therefore, this paper introduces mapping method that links an Arabic WordNet synset to its corresponding article in Wikipedia. This method uses monolingual and bilingual features to overcome the lack of semantic information in Arabic WordNet. For evaluating this method, an Arabic mapping data set, which contains 1,291 synset–article pairs, is compiled. The experimental analysis shows that the proposed method achieves promising results and outperforms the state-of-the-art methods that depend only on monolingual features. The mapped method has also been used to increase the coverage of Arabic WordNet by inserting new synsets from Wikipedia.

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