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A Tool for Transforming WordNet-Like Databases

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The paper presents WUpdate – a data manipulation language designed for WordNet-like lexical databases. The language can be used to perform modifications of a wordnet, such as adding word senses, removing words, interlinking synsets, etc. The focus of the paper is on solving wordnet-specific problems that are not addressed by other data manipulation languages. In particular, the paper addresses the problem of preserving the properties of semantic hierarchies while they are being transformed and the problem of changing the granularity of a WordNet-like database. The paper outlines the syntax and semantics of the WUpdate language and describes the underlying data model. Alternative approaches that may be undertaken to modify a WordNet-like database are discussed.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    We call such lexical databases wordnets or WordNet-like databases in the paper.

  2. 2.

    See http://www.wquery.org for details.

  3. 3.

    I.e. the set of values referenced by at least one relation of the instance.

  4. 4.

    Unless stated otherwise, the queries in the paper are invoked against PolNet [18, 19] – a WordNet-like database developed for the Polish language.

  5. 5.

    In the paper we skip the methods of accessing the arbitrary arguments of non-binary relations. The details can be found in [10].

  6. 6.

    By a step we mean the generator or any of the regular expressions of a path expression that follow.

  7. 7.

    The left-hand expression is optional. If it is not specified, all the tuples of the relation are considered as shown in the examples later in this section.

  8. 8.

    The {} generator represents all synsets in the database.

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This research was supported by a scholarship within the project “Scholarship support for Ph.D. students specializing in majors strategic for Wielkopolska’s development”, Sub-measure 8.2.2 Human Capital Operational Programme, co-financed by European Union under the European Social Fund.

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Kubis, M. (2014). A Tool for Transforming WordNet-Like Databases. In: Vetulani, Z., Mariani, J. (eds) Human Language Technology Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics. LTC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8387. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08958-4_28

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