Uta Priss
Conceptual exploration of semantic mirrors.
Priss, Uta; Old, L John
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L John Old
Abstract
The "Semantic Mirrors Method" (Dyvik, 1998) is a means for automatic derivation of thesaurus entries from a word-aligned parallel corpus. The method is based on the construction of lattices of linguistic features. This paper models the Semantic Mirrors Method with Formal Concept Analysis. It is argued that the method becomes simpler to understand with the help of FCA. This paper then investigates to what extent the Semantic Mirrors Method is applicable if the linguistic resource is not a high quality parallel corpus but, instead, a medium quality bilingual dictionary. This is a relevant question because medium quality bilingual dictionaries are freely available whereas high quality parallel corpora are expensive and difficult to obtain. The analysis shows that by themselves, bilingual dictionaries are not as suitable for the Semantic Mirrors Method but that this can be improved by applying conceptual exploration. The combined method of conceptual exploration and Semantic Mirrors provides a useful toolkit specifically for smaller size bilingual resources, such as ontologies and classification systems. The last section of this paper suggests that such applications are of interest in the area of ontology engineering. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.
Citation
Priss, U., & Old, L. J. (2005). Conceptual exploration of semantic mirrors.
Conference Name | Third International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3403 |
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Start Date | Feb 14, 2005 |
End Date | Feb 18, 2005 |
Publication Date | Feb 14, 2005 |
Deposit Date | Jun 6, 2008 |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Pages | 21-32 |
Keywords | Computational methods; Formal logic; Mathematical models;Semantics; Ontologies; Bilingual dictionaries; Glossaries; |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/1769 |
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