[Corpora-List] Book announcement: "A Wordnet from the Ground Up"

[Bartosz Broda]

"A Wordnet from the Ground Up" by Maciej Piasecki, Stan Szpakowicz and 
Bartosz Broda (ISBN 978-83-7493-476-3)

We hope that the book can be interesting for the Copora List readers as 
it presents the process of semi-automatic construction of the Polish 
wordnet on the basis of linguistic knowledge extraction from large 
corpora of Polish.

 From the preface:

"A language without a wordnet is at a severe disadvantage. We report on 
the initial stages of a long-term project to create a similar resource 
for Polish. We have envisaged a book for many audiences. The most 
immediate "clientele" are people who work with wordnets and on wordnets. 
We have attempted to make our experience with one language approachable 
to people who need not know anything about that language. Computing 
professionals who work with Polish texts may find the technical 
discussion interesting. Linguists who use computers in their study may 
be encouraged to acquire yet another element of their research 
workbench. Researchers who specialise in statistical method of semantic 
analysis of texts may consider our comprehensive overview of such 
methods useful.

There was no Polish wordnet when our work began several years ago. We 
chose to construct the resource from the ground up rather than translate 
the English WordNet first and then labouriously adapt it to the 
significantly different realities of the Polish language."

http://plwordnet.pwr.wroc.pl/main/?lang=en

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Downloads (PDF 14.5MB, zipped PDF 1.6MB)

http://www.plwordnet.pwr.wroc.pl/main/content/files/publications/A_Wordnet_from_the_Ground_Up.pdf

http://www.plwordnet.pwr.wroc.pl/main/content/files/publications/A_Wordnet_from_the_Ground_Up.zip

A mirror in Canada:

http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~szpak/pub/A_Wordnet_from_the_Ground_Up.pdf

http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~szpak/pub/A_Wordnet_from_the_Ground_Up.zip

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