In this project note we describe our work to make better documentation for the Open Multilingual Wordnet (OMW), a platform integrating many open wordnets.This includes the documentation of the OMW website itself as well as of semantic relations used by the component wordnets.Some of this documentation work was done with the support of the Google Season of Docs.The OMW project page, which links both to the actual OMW server and the documentation has been moved to a new location: https://omwn.org.

In this paper we describe a new methodology to expand the Abui Wordnet through data collected using the Rapid Word Collection (RWC) method – based on SIL’s Semantic Domains. Using a multilingual sense-intersection algorithm, we created a ranked list of concept suggestions for each domain, and then used the ranked list as a filter to link the Abui RWC data to wordnet. This used translations from both SIL’s Semantic Domain’s structure and example words, both available through SIL’s Fieldworks software and the RWC project. We release both the new mapping of the SIL Semantic Domains to wordnet and an expansion of the Abui Wordnet.

This paper introduces the Open Cantonese Sense-Tagged Corpus, a new and ongoing project to serve as the companion to the development of the Cantonese Wordnet.This corpus is built on top of the Cantonese Wordnet Corpus, which currently provides example sentences for most verbs in this wordnet.This paper motivates the choice of starting a sense-tagged corpus from both linguistic and educational perspectives, and discusses the current solutions to issues arisen from the sensetagging exercise.In total, we have tagged over 5,000 concepts, with more than 3,700 direct links to the Cantonese Wordnet.

In this paper we discuss an ongoing effort to enrich students' learning by involving them in sense tagging.The main goal is to lead students to discover how we can represent meaning and where the limits of our current theories lie.A subsidiary goal is to create sense tagged corpora and an accompanying linked lexicon (in our case wordnets).We present the results of tagging several texts and suggest some ways in which the tagging process could be improved.Two authors of this paper present their own experience as students.Overall, students reported that they found the tagging an enriching experience.The annotated corpora and changes to the wordnet are made available through the NTU multilingual corpus and associated wordnets (NTU-MC).

The Global Wordnet Formats have been introduced to enable wordnets to have a common representation that can be integrated through the Global WordNet Grid.As a result of their adoption, a number of shortcomings of the format were identified, and in this paper we describe the extensions to the formats that address these issues.These include: ordering of senses, dependencies between wordnets, pronunciation, syntactic modelling, relations, sense keys, metadata and RDF support.Furthermore, we provide some perspectives on how these changes help in the integration of wordnets.

This paper reports on the development of the Cantonese Wordnet, a new wordnet project based on Hong Kong Cantonese.It is built using the expansion approach, leveraging on the existing Chinese Open Wordnet, and the Princeton Wordnet's semantic hierarchy.The main goal of our project was to produce a high quality, human-curated resourceand this paper reports on the initial efforts and steady progress of our building method.It is our belief that the lexical data made available by this wordnet, including Jyutping romanization, will be useful for a variety of future uses, including many language processing tasks and linguistic research on Cantonese and its interactions with other Chinese dialects.

With the increasing availability of wordnets for ancient languages, such as Ancient Greek and Latin, gaps remain in the coverage of less studied languages of antiquity.This paper reports on the construction and evaluation of a new wordnet for Coptic, the language of Late Roman, Byzantine and Early Islamic Egypt in the first millenium CE.We present our approach to constructing the wordnet which uses multilingual Coptic dictionaries and wordnets for five different languages.We further discuss the results of this effort and outline our on-going/future work.

We aim to support digital humanities work related to the study of sacred texts. To do this, we propose to build a cross-lingual wordnet within the do-main of theology. We target the Collaborative Interlingual Index (CILI) directly instead of each individual wordnet. The paper presents background for this proposal: (1) an overview of concepts relevant to theology and (2) a summary of the domain-associated issues observed in the Princeton WordNet (PWN). We have found that definitions for concepts in this domain can be too restrictive, inconsistent, and unclear. Necessary synsets are missing, with the PWN being skewed towards Christianity. We argue that tackling problems in a single domain is a better method for improving CILI. By focusing on a single topic rather than a single language, this will result in the proper construction of definitions, romanization/translation of lemmas, and also improvements in use of/creation of a cross-lingual domain hierarchy.

In languages such as Chinese, classifiers (CLs) play a central role in the quantification of noun-phrases.This can be a problem when generating text from input that does not specify the classifier, as in machine translation (MT) from English to Chinese.Many solutions to this problem rely on dictionaries of noun-CL pairs.However, there is no open large-scale machine-tractable dictionary of noun-CL associations.Many published resources exist, but they tend to focus on how a CL is used (e.g.what kinds of nouns can be used with it, or what features seem to be selected by each CL).In fact, since nouns are open class words, producing an exhaustive definite list of noun-CL associations is not possible, since it would quickly get out of date.Our work tries to address this problem by providing an algorithm for automatic building of a frequency based dictionary of noun-CL pairs, mapped to concepts in the Chinese Open Wordnet (Wang and Bond, 2013), an open machinetractable dictionary for Chinese.All results will released under an open license.