CORNETTO

Proposed Project

Cornetto will build a lexical semantic database for Dutch, covering 40K entries, including the most generic and central part of the language and a specialized database for the domain of financial law. The databases will contain:

  • vertical semantic relations, i.e. hyponym and synonym relations;
  • horizontal semantic relations, such as roles, part-whole relations, causal relations;
  • combinatorial relations, such as lexical functions, selectional restrictions, collocations, syntactico-semantic frames;
  • a top-level ontology;
  • an ontological typing of the lexical units;
  • a domain ontology (Wordnet Domains);
  • a domain labelling of the lexical units;
  • an equivalence mapping to synsets in WordNet2.x;
  • morpho-syntactic information, including syntactic complementation frames;

Furthermore, Cornetto will include:

  • an open-source and public database system with editor, import/export functions and API;
  • the methodology and toolkit for acquiring new concepts and relations from corpora;
  • the methodology and toolkit for tuning and customizing to a specific domain;

Cornetto will be validated in Information Retrieval and Question Answering applications. The domain database will be evaluated by a user-group of companies that have specifically requested such a domain-tuned database.
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Last update: 22 October, 2008