Although generic (i.e. domain independent) and specialized (i.e. domain specific) lexical resources are usually developed with different aims, an integrated consultation of the two resources would be useful for many practical purposes. We describe a plug-in approach which takes into account our intuitions about an integrated consultation. The model is based on the definition of plug-in relations that are established to consider possible overlapping and inconsistencies between the two resources. As a consequence, the inheritance of linguistic oriented information makes the specialized resources usable in existing wordnet based applications. The approach has been experimented connecting ItalWordNet, a generic lexical database, and Economic-WordNet, a specialized wordnet for the economic and financial domain
A Plug-in Approach for an Integrated Consultation of Generic and Specialized Wordnets
Magnini, Bernardo;Speranza, Manuela
2001-01-01
Abstract
Although generic (i.e. domain independent) and specialized (i.e. domain specific) lexical resources are usually developed with different aims, an integrated consultation of the two resources would be useful for many practical purposes. We describe a plug-in approach which takes into account our intuitions about an integrated consultation. The model is based on the definition of plug-in relations that are established to consider possible overlapping and inconsistencies between the two resources. As a consequence, the inheritance of linguistic oriented information makes the specialized resources usable in existing wordnet based applications. The approach has been experimented connecting ItalWordNet, a generic lexical database, and Economic-WordNet, a specialized wordnet for the economic and financial domainI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
