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International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language

PROPOR 2016: Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language pp 283–295Cite as

CONTO.PT: Groundwork for the Automatic Creation of a Fuzzy Portuguese Wordnet

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There are several lexical resources available for the computational processing of Portuguese, organised differently and created by different people with different approaches and limitations. This paper presents the first experiments towards the exploitation of seven of those resources in the automatic creation of a large wordnet, where numerical scores are assigned to the inclusion of words in synsets and to the connection of synsets by semantic relations. Experiments confirm that a large wordnet can indeed be created and, to some extent, computed scores can be used as a confidence measure, which will enable the users to select only a portion of the resource, depending on the needs of their application on quantity and quality of lexical-semantic knowledge.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See http://mwnpt.di.fc.ul.pt/.

  2. 2.

    http://pt.wiktionary.org.

  3. 3.

    http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~arocha/AED1/0607/trabalhos/thesaurus.txt.

  4. 4.

    https://crowdflower.com/.

  5. 5.

    The same contributor was not allowed to label more than two sets of pairs.

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    Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira

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    João Silva

  2. ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal

    Ricardo Ribeiro

  3. Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal

    Paulo Quaresma

  4. Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Caxias do Suö, Brazil

    André Adami

  5. Universidade de Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

    António Branco

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Gonçalo Oliveira, H. (2016). CONTO.PT: Groundwork for the Automatic Creation of a Fuzzy Portuguese Wordnet. In: Silva, J., Ribeiro, R., Quaresma, P., Adami, A., Branco, A. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9727. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41552-9_29

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