TitleOn the automatic Generation of Intermediate Logic Forms for WordNet Glosses
Publication TypeBook Chapter
Year of Publication2010
AuthorsAgerri, Rodrigo, and Anselmo PeƱas
EditorGelbukh, Alexander
Book TitleComputational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 11 International Conference, Cicling 2010
Series TitleLecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
Volume6008
Pagination26-38
PublisherSpringer
CityIasi, Romania
ISBN Number3-642-12115-2
Abstract

This paper presents an automatically generated Intermediate Logic Form of WordNet's glosses. Our proposed logic form includes neo-Davidsonian reification in a simple and flat syntax close to natural language. We offer a comparison with other semantic representations such as those provided by Hobbs and Extended WordNet. The Intermediate Logic Forms are straightforwardly obtained from the output of a pipeline consisting of a part-of-speech tagger, a dependency parser and our own Intermediate Logic Form generator (all freely available tools). We apply the pipeline to the glosses of WordNet to obtain a lexical resource ready to be used as knowledge base or resource for a variety of tasks involving some kind of semantic inference. We present a qualitative evaluation of the resource and discuss its possible application in Natural Language Understanding.