WordNet

[RMC]

Thank you for your reply. I'm looking at George Miller's English WordNet as
a model, hoping to hook up to the English WordNet a Tagalog WordNet (check
out the English WordNet at http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/). Using
Miller's approach, the EuroWordNet Consortium developed not only
intralingual wordnets for a number of European languages but also provided
interlingual links (http://www.hum.uva.nl/~ewn/). So perhaps -- dreaming
on -- one can *think* about an interlingual Philippine WordNet, who knows.
Right now I am stymied by the problem posed by root words. The English
WordNet ignores the relationship between the noun house and the verb house.
The EuroWordNet attempted to unify nouns and verbs, by introducing new
relations noun-to-verb hyperonym/hyponym, v-to-n hyper/hypo, etc. Add
adjective and you've got more relations than you bargained for. Neither
approach *derives* the noun and the verb from the *root* house. In a Tagalog
Wordnet it may make more sense to treat roots as a part of speech for this
purpose, and to maintain a lexical relation to derived words. Wonder if
someone in the forum has gone there, done that.
rcena at epcor-group.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Chaumont Devin <devil at lava.net>
To: AUSTRONESIAN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS <AN-LANG at anu.edu.au>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: WordNet


> "RMC" <rcena at epcor-group.com> writes:
>
> >Is anybody developing a WordNet of an Austronesian language?
>
> This is precisely what I tried to get going before (see my last postings),
> but with minimal results.  I Think I offered to provide the software, but
> can't remember anymore.
>
> >Perhaps we can
> >compare notes (though, at this point, I have more questions than
> >answers).
>
> And don't we all, and isn't this the reason why this should be done?
>
> Also, we can't develop MT systems for these languages in the future unless
> we have ontologies for them.
>
> Kinda hard for linguists to think about these things if they don't even
> know what they are, but keep trying, it's 2000 and they are bound to catch
> on before 2100!
>
> With best regards from Honolulu,
> chaumont Devin.
>