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Building the Galician wordnet: methods and applications

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This paper presents the different methodologies and resources used to build Galnet, the Galician version of WordNet. It reviews the different extraction processes and the lexicographical and textual sources used to develop this resource, and describes some of its applications in ontology research and terminology processing.

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  1. http://www.globalwordnet.org [17.05.2017].

  2. http://compling.hss.ntu.edu.sg/omw/ [17.05.2017].

  3. http://adimen.si.ehu.es/web/MCR/ [17.05.2017].

  4. http://sli.uvigo.gal/galnet/ [17.05.2017].

  5. More information about WordNet lexicographer files can be found at http://wordnet.princeton.edu/wordnet/man/lexnames.5WN.html [17.05.2017].

  6. http://adimen.si.ehu.es/web/BLC/ [17.05.2017].

  7. http://sli.uvigo.gal/CTG/ [17.05.2017].

  8. http://sli.uvigo.gal/termoteca/ [17.05.2017].

  9. http://sli.uvigo.gal/galnet/galnet.php?version=dev&experiment=bootstrap [17.05.2017].

  10. http://sli.uvigo.gal/galnet/galnet.php?version=dev&experiment=capitals [17.05.2017].

  11. http://sli.uvigo.gal/galnet/galnet.php?version=dev&experiment=dic-moneng [17.05.2017].

  12. http://sli.uvigo.gal/galnet/galnet.php?version=dev&experiment=galipedia [17.05.2017].

  13. http://adimen.si.ehu.es/web/files/mcr30/mcr30.zip [17.05.2017].

  14. http://sourceforge.net/projects/apertium/ [17.05.2017].

  15. http://gl.wiktionary.org [17.05.2017].

  16. http://babelnet.org [17.05.2017].

  17. http://sli.uvigo.gal/CLUVI/ [17.05.2017].

  18. http://www.gabormelli.com/RKB/SemCor_Corpus [17.05.2017].

  19. http://sli.uvigo.gal/galnet/galnet.php?version=dev&experiment=wnt7 [17.05.2017].

  20. http://www.omegawiki.org [17.05.2017].

  21. http://www.geonames.org [17.05.2017].

  22. http://species.wikimedia.org [17.05.2017].

  23. http://sli.uvigo.gal/galnet/galnet.php?version=dev&experiment=wnt6dic [17.05.2017].

  24. http://sli.uvigo.gal/sinonimos/ [17.05.2017].

  25. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.ayco.sinonimosgal [17.05.2017].

  26. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sinonimos-do-galego/id940045971 [17.05.2017].

  27. We have tried this experiment also with two variants, which generated 25,186 candidates, but we have had to reject this approach in order to limit the number of results and improve even more the accuracy of the proposals (Solla Portela and Gómez Guinovart 2014).

  28. http://sli.uvigo.gal/galnet/galnet.php?version=dev&experiment=singalnet [17.05.2017].

  29. http://sli.uvigo.gal/galnet/galnet.php?version=dev&experiment=dicsingal [17.05.2017].

  30. http://sli.uvigo.gal/galnet/galnet.php?version=dev&experiment=fralnet [17.05.2017].

  31. http://sli.uvigo.gal/galnet/galnet.php?version=dev&experiment=medicalnet [17.05.2017].

  32. http://sli.uvigo.gal/sinonimos/ [17.05.2017].

  33. http://gl.dbpedia.org [17.05.2017].

  34. http://dbpedia.org [17.05.2017].

  35. http://sli.uvigo.gal/SensoGal/ [17.05.2017].

  36. http://sli.uvigo.gal/galnet/galnet.php?version=dev&experiment=econonet [17.05.2017.], and similarly the rest of the experiments collected in this section.

  37. http://sli.uvigo.gal/galnet/ [17.05.2017].

  38. http://sli.uvigo.gal/RILG/ [17.05.2017].

  39. http://www.ihtsdo.org/snomed-ct/ [17.05.2017].

  40. http://sli.uvigo.gal/galnet/termonet.php [17.05.2017].

  41. http://sli.uvigo.gal/CTG/ [17.05.2017].

  42. http://nlp.lsi.upc.edu/freeling/ [17.05.2017].

  43. The full results of this query are available at http://sli.uvigo.gal/galnet/termonet.php?ili=ili-30-06045562-n [17.05.2017].

  44. http://sli.uvigo.gal/galnet/hierarchy.php?version=dev&ontology=epinonyms&category=entity [17.05.2017].

  45. http://sli.uvigo.gal/galnet/category.php [17.05.2017].

  46. http://gl.dbpedia.org [17.05.2017].

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This research has been carried out thanks to the projects SKATeR (TIN2012-38584-C06-04) and TUNER (TIN2015-65308-C5-1-R) supported by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the Spanish Government and the European Fund for Regional Development (MINECO/FEDER).

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Guinovart, X.G., Portela, M.A.S. Building the Galician wordnet: methods and applications. Lang Resources & Evaluation 52, 317–339 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-017-9408-5

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