A Bi-directional Translation Approach for Building Thai Wordnet

Author

Akaraputthiporn, Prissana ; Kosawat, Krit ; Aroonmanakun, Wirote

Author_Institution

Dept. of Linguistics, Chulalongkorn Univ., Bangkok, Thailand

fYear

2009

fDate

7-9 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

97

Lastpage

101

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a bi-directional translation approach for building Thai WordNet automatically. The 2nd Order Entity of common bases concepts were selected as the target for constructing Thai WordNet in this study. Manual construction was carried out to set up a gold standard for evaluating the bi-directional translation approach as well as other automatic Thai WordNet construction methods. The bi-directional translation method was found to be good for precision but not recall. Issues relating to the number of word senses, whether it is monosemic or polysemic, and the relation between source and target words, whether it is 1:1, 1:many, many:1, or many:many, were investigated.

Keywords

linguistics; natural language processing; word processing; Thai WordNet; bidirectional translation approach; monosemic words; polysemic words; Art; Bidirectional control; Buildings; Dictionaries; Filtering; Filters; Gold; Hair; Natural languages; Skin; 2nd Order Entity; Bi-directional Translation Method; Lexical Database; Thai Wordnet;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Asian Language Processing, 2009. IALP '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3904-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IALP.2009.29

Filename

5380778