This paper describes a project aimed at creating a lexical ontology extracted (semi)
automatically from a large Portuguese general dictionary. Although using machine readable …

This ongoing research presents an alternative to the manual creation of lexical resources
and proposes an approach towards the automatic construction of a lexical ontology for …

Not many years ago it was usual to comment on the lack of an open lexical-semantic
knowledge base, following the lines of Princeton WordNet, but for Portuguese. Today, the …

The purpose of this paper is to present an approach to create semi-automatically ontology
from Arabic texts. The whole process is supervised by a linguistic expert. Our involvement in …

This paper presents PAPEL, a lexical resource for Portuguese, consisting of relations
between terms, extracted by (semi) automatic means from a general language dictionary. An …

While there are many large knowledge bases (eg Freebase, Yago, DBpedia) as well as
linked data sets available on the web, they typically lack lexical information stating how the …

One of the main challenges for computational lexical semantics is to bridge the gap between
on the one hand theoretical research on the organization of the lexicon and on the formal …

A wordnet is an important tool for developing natural language processing applications for a
language. However, most wordnets are handcrafted by experts, which limits their growth. In …

There are a number of ways in which corpus technology can support lexicography, as
described in Rundell and Kilgarriff (2011). It can make it more accurate, more consistent and …

In this paper we describe the structure and development of the Brandeis Semantic Ontology
(BSO), a large generative lexicon ontology and lexical database. The BSO has been …