21.2091, FYI: New Version: English-Universal Networking Lang Dictionary

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Subject: 21.2091, FYI: New Version: English-Universal Networking Lang Dictionary

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Date: 20-Apr-2010
From: Ronaldo Martins < r.martins at undlfoundation.org >
Subject: New Version: English-Universal Networking Lang Dictionary
 

	
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Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 09:55:56
From: Ronaldo Martins [r.martins at undlfoundation.org]
Subject: New Version: English-Universal Networking Lang Dictionary

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The Universal Networking Digital Language (UNDL) Foundation has 
released a new version of the English-Universal Networking Language 
(UNL) dictionary. The English-UNL dictionary is a bidirectional 
(ENG>UNL, UNL>ENG) machine-tractable lexical database comprising 
more than 200,000 mappings between English and UNL. It brings 
extensive information about lexical items of English, including 
morphological structure, inflectional paradigms and subcategorization 
frames, as well as semantic information about UNL entries. The 
dictionary is available under an Attribution Share Alike (CC-BY-SA) 
Creative Commons license at the UNLarium 
(http://www.unlweb.net/unlarium). 

In order to browse and to export the dictionary, users are expected to 
sign in to the UNLweb (with their own account or as guests):

http://www.unlweb.net/user/index.php?page=login

Users can then go to the UNLarium, where they will find the option 
Dictionary and, inside it, the English-UNL dictionary, along with others 
that are still being provided.

How the English-UNL dictionary was created:

The English-UNL dictionary was mainly derived from a word list 
extracted from the English WordNet 3.0, which was automatically 
analyzed and humanly revised for lexical categories, lexical structure 
(roots, affixes), part of speech, number (singular, plural, singulare 
tantum, plurale tantum, invariant), valence, transitivity, inflectional 
paradigms (for nouns and verbs) and subcategorization frames 
(according to the X-bar theory). English entries were mapped onto 
entries of the UNL dictionary (i.e., Universal Words [UWs]) and may be 
freely exported in two different formats: generative, containing only 
base forms and the corresponding generation (inflectional and 
composition) rules; and enumerative, containing word forms and lexical 
features. A sample of entries is presented below. 

base form
[foot] {2883} "100284665" (POS=NOU, MOR=STE, LST=WRD, 
NUM=SNG, INF=M1, FLX(PLR:="feet";)) ;

word forms
[foot] {2883} "100284665" (POS=NOU, MOR=WFO, LST=WRD, 
NUM=SNG, INF=M1);
[feet] {2883} "100284665" (POS=NOU, MOR=WFO, LST=WRD, 
NUM=PLR, INF=M1);

The English-UNL dictionary is generated in real time according to the
specifications and to the tagset described at the UNLwiki
(http://www.unlweb.net/wiki). As an ongoing project and a dynamic 
database, the dictionary is subject to permanent augmentation and 
improvement, and reports on problems and other contributions are 
mostly welcome.

For further information, please contact: 
Ronaldo Martins (r.martins at undlfoundation.org)
Language Resources Manager
UNDL Foundation
48, route de Chancy
CH-1213 - Geneva - Switzerland 
+41 22 879 8090

What is UNL? 

The UNL is an artificial language that has been used for several 
different tasks in natural language processing, such as machine 
translation, multilingual document generation, summarization, 
information retrieval and semantic reasoning. It has been originally 
proposed by the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations 
University, in Tokyo, and has been currently promoted by the UNDL 
Foundation, in Geneva, Switzerland, under a mandate of the United 
Nations. [read more about UNL in http://www.unlweb.net]

The UNDL Foundation:

The UNDL Foundation (http://www.undlfoundation.org) is a non-profit
organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, which has received from 
the United Nations the mandate for implementing the Universal 
Networking Language (UNL). The UNL Programme is a collaborative 
effort to create natural language resources and technology to reduce 
language barriers and strengthen cross-cultural communication in the 
framework of the United Nations. Participation in the Programme is free 
and open to individuals and institutions, either as researchers or as 
developers. Special funds are available for some languages. 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics





 




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