121 views107 votes15 years 5 months ago LREC 2008»
This paper deals with a multilingual relational lexical database of proper name, Prolexbase, a free resource available on the CNRTL website. The Prolex model is based on two main ...
In this paper we develop a formalization of semantic relations that facilitates efficient implementations of relations in lexical databases or knowledge representation systems usi...
183 views135 votes15 years 5 months ago LREC 2010»
A research has been carried on and is still in progress aimed at the construction of three specialized lexicons organized as databases of relational type. The three databases cont...
This paper presents a method for improving phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation systems by enriching the original translation model with information derived from a multilin...
146 views110 votes15 years 5 months ago LREC 2010»
In this paper we describe two geometrical models of meaning representation, the Semantic Atlas (SA) and the Automatic Contexonym Organizing Model (ACOM). The SA provides maps of m...
378 views207 votes15 years 3 months ago TKDE 2008»
In this paper, we propose an image semantic model based on the knowledge and criteria in the field of linguistics and taxonomy. Our work bridges the "semantic gap" by sea...
We present and experimentally evaluate a new model of pronunciation by analogy: the paradigmatic cascades model. Given a pronunciation lexicon, this algorithm first extracts the m...
117 views213 votes16 years 5 months ago ICDE 2004»
The difficulty inherent in schema matching has led to the development of several generic match algorithms. This paper describes how we adapted general approaches to the specific t...
119 views139 votes15 years 1 months ago IALP 2010»
This paper describes an attempt to build a lexical database for the Yami language, an Austronesian endangered language. As the Yami language documentation and conservation project...
103 views106 votes15 years 3 months ago CORR 2006»
The present work falls in the line of activities promoted by the European Languguage Resource Association (ELRA) Production Committee (PCom) and raises issues in methods, procedur...