Principles, Construction and Application of Multilingual Wordnets: Proceedings of the 5th Global Wordnet Conference

by Christiane Fellbaum, Piek Vossen, P Bhattacharyya

Representing the meanings of words is a formidable task for linguists; understanding them is arguably the greatest challenge for machines. Wordnets are lexical databases in which the meanings of words are given in terms of their relations to other words. This model of lexical meaning inspired by research on human semantic memory allows automatic systems designed for Natural Language Processing to detect and measure semantic similarity among words...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8184870833
• ISBN13: 9788184870831
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Narosa Publishing House
• Length: 376 Pages