In Search for More Knowledge: Regular Polysemy and Knowledge Acquisition

This paper describes the process of the extraction of implicit knowledge from WordNet and EuroWordNet. This knowledge is an extension of the explicit knowledge structures already provided by the wordnets in the form of synsets and semantic relations, and is contained both within (Euro)WordNet’s hierarchical structure and the glosses that are associated with each WordNet synset. The extended knowledge comes in the form of frame structures containing regular polysemic patterns and automatically extracted relations that link the participating concepts in these patterns.