Multilingual WordNets and Lexical Structure

In this lecture we will look at building wordnets for new languages (slides)

Using wordnet

  1. Use the wn module to load omw (The latest version of the OMW data)
    import wn
        wn.download('omw')
        ewn=wn.Wordnet('omw-en:1.4')
        jwn=wn.Wordnet('omw-ja:1.4')
    
    Optionally load other wordnets you may be interested in
    • odenet (German)
    • IndoWordnet (Hindi) iwn-hi-1.0.xml.xz (uploaded to Surf Drive)
  2. Look at the translations for the different senses for bird
    • How many are there?
    • What are their definitions? (if they have any)
    • For each translation, print out the definition (from the synsets) and lemmas (from the words)
  3. Does the wordnet you are looking at have any words without ILIs?

Readings/Preparation

Francis Bond and Kyonghee Paik (2012)
A survey of wordnets and their licenses In Proceedings of the 6th Global WordNet Conference (GWC 2012). Matsue. 64–71
Francis Bond, Piek Vossen, John McCrae, and Christiane Fellbaum (2016)
CILI: the Collaborative Interlingual Index. In Proceedings of the 8th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2016), Bucharest. pp 50–57