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The Creation of Onto.PT: A Wordnet-Like Lexical Ontology for Portuguese

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Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language (PROPOR 2014)

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A wordnet is an important tool for developing natural language processing applications for a language, but the manual creation of such a resource limits its development. This dissertation studied the automatic construction of Onto.PT, a large Portuguese wordnet, aiming to minimise the main limitations of existing Portuguese wordnets. On this context, we propose ECO, an approach for creating wordnets automatically from text – relation instances are extracted, synonymy clusters (synsets) are discovered, and the remaining relations are then attached to suitable synsets. This document also reports on the contents of Onto.PT, its comparison to other wordnets, and its evaluation.

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    Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira

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  1. FCHS, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas,, 8005-139, Faro, Portugal

    Jorge Baptista

  2. INESC-ID Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Nuno Mamede

  3. IT-University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Sara Candeias

  4. USP-EACH, São Paulo-SP, Brazil

    Ivandré Paraboni

  5. USP-ICMC, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

    Thiago A. S. Pardo

  6. SCC-ICMC, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

    Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes

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Gonçalo Oliveira, H. (2014). The Creation of Onto.PT: A Wordnet-Like Lexical Ontology for Portuguese. In: Baptista, J., Mamede, N., Candeias, S., Paraboni, I., Pardo, T.A.S., Volpe Nunes, M.d.G. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8775. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09761-9_16

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