Paper Info
Title
Fostering intercultural collaboration: a web service architecture for cross-fertilization of distributed wordnets
Abstract
Enhancing the development of multilingual lexicons is of foremost importance for intercultural collaboration to take place, as multilingual lexicons are the cornerstone of several multilingual applications. However, the development and maintenance of large-scale, robust multilingual dictionaries is a tantalizing task. In this paper we present a tool, based on a web service architecture, enabling semi-automatic generation of bilingual lexicons through linking of distributed monolingual lexical resources. In addition to lexicon development, the architecture also allows enrichment of monolingual source lexicons through exploitation of the semantic information encoded in corresponding entries. In the paper we describe our case study applied to the Italian and Chinese wordnets, and we illustrate how the architecture can be extended to access distributed multilingual WordNets over the Internet, paving the way to exploitation in a cross-lingual framework of the wealth of information built over the last decade.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/978-3-540-74000-1_11
IWIC
Keywords
Field
DocType
multilingual lexicon,monolingual source lexicon,multilingual application,multilingual wordnets,monolingual lexical resource,lexicon development,intercultural collaboration,semantic information,chinese wordnets,web service architecture,robust multilingual dictionary,web service
World Wide Web,Architecture,Computer science,Semantic information,Lexicon,Cornerstone,Web service architecture,The Internet
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
4568
0302-9743
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
7
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Francesca Bertagna16717.30
Monica Monachini2486.03
Claudia Soria36910.08
Nicoletta Calzolari41089264.88
Chu-Ren Huang5600136.84
Shu-kai Hsieh64721.47
Andrea Marchetti7948.59
Maurizio Tesconi828132.06