Paper Info
Title
LexikoNet - a lexical database based on type and role hierarchies
Abstract
In this paper LexikoNet, a large lexical ontology of German nouns is presented. Unlike GermaNet and the Princeton WordNet, LexikoNet has distinguished type and role hypernyms right from the outset and organizes those lexemes in a parallel, independent hierarchy. In addition to roles and types, LexikoNet uses meronymic and holonymic relations as well as the instance relation. LexikoNet is based on a conceptual hierarchy of currently 1,470 classes to which approximately 90,000 word senses taken from a large German monolingual dictionary, the W¨ orterbuch der deutschen Gegenwartssprache (WDG), are attached. The conceptual classes provide a useful degree of abstraction for the lexicographic description of selectional restrictions, thus making LexikoNet a useful filtering tool for corpus based lexicographic analysis. LexikoNet is currently used in-house as a filter for lexicographic extraction tasks in the DWDS project. Furthermore, it is used as an classification tool of the 'words of the week' provided for the newspaper Die ZEIT on www.zeit.de.
Year
Venue
Field
2006
LREC
Computer science,Lexical database,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Hierarchy
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexander Geyken1206.19
Norbert Schrader200.34
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften300.34