LAC: Language and the Computer: Project 2

This assignment constitutes 30% of your final grade for LAC. Please work on this individually or in groups of two or three.

Pick one of the following:

A: Illustrate a basic list

1. Go through the basic list, and show a picture for each word
   • Easiest to do by concepts
   • Also show synonyms and examples, if any
   • You can get a definition from another wordnet (like en-omw:1.4)
2. Try to break things into smaller groups (pos, semantic field, first letter)
3. Note how many words are missing pictures, and list them
4. If the word has no picture, experiment with a hypernym or hyponym
   • take a sample and evaluate --- how appropriate is the picture
   • you can use ome-wn:1.4 to find semantic relations
5. You can show images in google colab like this:

   from IPython.display import display, Markdown
   
   ara_id=2910
   
   display(Markdown((f"""**Computer**
    
   <img width='48' src='https://static.arasaac.org/pictograms/{ara_id}/{ara_id}_300.png'> *from Arasaac*""")))
         

6. Convert the illustrated vocabulary to a pdf booklet (using for example https://pypi.org/project/markdown-pdf/)

You can use these wordnets:

• Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Basic Vocabulary for English
  • Contains words and example sentences for basic vocabulary
  • Web page is here: https://fcbond.github.io/tufs/
  • Wordnet web page is here: https://malindo.aa-ken.jp/TUFSOpenLgResources.html
  • Vocab Search page is here [in Japanese]: https://www.coelang.tufs.ac.jp/mt/index_v.html
• Arasaac for English
  • Contains words and links to pictures
  • Definition is a space-separated list of picture ids
  • Web page is here: https://arasaac.org/
  • Wordnet web page is here: https://github.com/bond-lab/wn-araasac/
• Then test with similar wordnets, you can chose the languages
  • TUFS: ['as', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'id', 'ja', 'km', 'ko', 'lo', 'mn', 'my', 'pt', 'ru', 'th', 'tl', 'tr', 'ur', 'vi', 'zsm']
  • ARASAAC: ['an', 'ar', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'eu', 'fa', 'fr', 'gl', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'it', 'ko', 'lt', 'mk', 'nb', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sr', 'zh']
• Core synsets are a semi-automatically compiled list of 5000 "core" word senses in Princeton WordNet (approximately the 5000 most frequently used word senses). We have mapped them to ilis
  • wn-core-ili.tab
• Basic synsets are a compiled list of 578 "basic" synsets from the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Basic Vocabulary for Japanese. We have mapped them to ilis
  • wn-basic-ili.tab

B: Own Task

You can suggest your own task, and if I say ok, do it instead. This can be used to fit in with other research you are doing, but should not duplicate work done for other assessment, you must do something new for this class.

Deliverable

You should deliver a paper, which contains a link to the program and if necessary the output files. For task A: Illustrate a basic list attach the illustrated list as well, either as a separate file or as an appendix.

• The paper should be no more than ten pages including diagrams, with up to two additional pages of references,
• You should give concrete examples from the resource(s) you analyzed.
• Include quantitive results.
• Include representative examples.
• You don't need an extensive literature review, but you should read and cite the references below and if you consult other lexicons (which you are encouraged to do) then you should read the papers that describe them carefully, and cite them.
• Include a link to your entire program on google colab --- I should be able to run the entire page
  In the main paper describe generally what the program does (no need to go into extreme detail)
• If you want to make it even more beautiful, as I am sure you do, take a look at my (Computational) Linguistic Style Guidelines: a guide for the flummoxed.
• Submit softcopy (via moodle).
• The deadline is on the main page..

Project Two for LAC: Language and the Computer Francis Bond.