A wordnet is an important tool for developing natural language processing applications for a
language. However, most wordnets are handcrafted by experts, which limits their growth. In …

Computational creativity seeks to understand computational mechanisms that can be
characterized as creative. The creation of new concepts is a central challenge for any …

In this article we exploit the possibility on bootstrapping an European Portuguese WordNet
from the English, Spanish and Galician wordnets using Probabilistic Translation Dictionaries …

Current synonym extraction methods work in a “closed” way. Given the problem word and
set of target words, researchers have to choose words synonymous with the problem word …

Este artigo apresenta o CARTÃO, uma nova rede léxico-semântica para o português,
composta por relações extraídas a partir de três dicionários electrónicos. Após analisarmos …

A computational lexicon is the backbone of any language processing system. It helps
computers to understand the language complexity as a human does by inculcating words …

There are several lexical resources available for the computational processing of
Portuguese, organised differently and created by different people with different approaches …

Text mining techniques confront many challenges when dealing with the Arabic language
including lexical disambiguation because Arabic is a highly inflectional and derivational …

The integration of linguistic and domain-oriented knowledge resources is a common task in
many current projects with NLP objectives. WordNet and EuroWordNet offer large lexical …

The existence of a broad-coverage lexical-semantic knowledge base has a positive impact
on the computational processing of its target language. This is the case of Princeton …