Title
The Role of Common-Sense Knowledge in Assessing Semantic Association
Abstract
Natural language processing techniques often aim at automatically extracting semantics from texts. However, they usually need some available semantic knowledge contained in dictionaries and resources such as WordNet, Wikipedia, and FrameNet. In this respect, there is a large literature about the creation of novel semantic resources as well as attempts to integrate existing ones. In this context, we here focus on common-sense knowledge, which shows to have interesting characteristics as well as challenging issues such as ambiguity, vagueness, and inconsistency. In this paper, we make use of a large-scale and crowdsourced common-sense knowledge base, i.e., ConceptNet, to qualitatively evaluate its role in the perception of semantic association among words. We then propose an unsupervised method to disambiguate and integrate ConceptNet instances into WordNet, demonstrating how the enriched resource improves the recognition of semantic association. Finally, we describe a novel approach to label semantically associated words by exploiting the functional and behavioral information usually contained in common sense, demonstrating how this enhances the explanation (and the use) of relatedness and similarity with non-numeric information.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s13740-018-0094-2
Journal on Data Semantics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Common-sense knowledge,Semantic association,Semantic resources,Semantic labeling,Human perception,Relatedness and similarity,Automatic classification
Semantic memory,Data mining,Commonsense knowledge,Vagueness,Computer science,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Knowledge base,WordNet,Ambiguity,Semantics,FrameNet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
1
1861-2040
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
8
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alice Ruggeri162.70
Luigi Di Caro219535.21
Guido Boella31867162.59