Derivations and Connections: Word Formation in the LiLa Knowledge Base of Linguistic Resources for Latin

Litta, Eleonora; Passarotti, Marco; Mambrini, Francesco

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“…παιδ-paid-, used in the word παῖς pais "child") and morphological pattern (e.g. -ion diminutives), which will further expand linguistic research possibilities for end users: see Litta et al (2019) for comparable work for the Latin language.…”

Section: Part-of-speech and Morphologymentioning

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Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2021

2021

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Linguistic diversity as a testing ground for the study of semantic change Abstract: There are between 6000 and 8000 languages currently spoken in the world. The majority of those still lack decent descriptions, not to mention any written tradition and sizeable documents to rely on while trying to trace semantic changes they have undergone in the past and understanding the mechanisms behind them. Understandably, but likewise regrettably, most of the theoretical thinking in linguistics and adjacent disciplines has been formed by research on a few very big languages with a long written tradition, and the same has to a large extent been carried over to computational approaches, including work on semantic change. In our talk we will focus on two big issues which we believe deserve more awareness and attention among researchers involved in computational approaches to historical language change:• A crucial part in any theoretical work consists of formulating hypotheses, generalizations, laws etc. and explaining them, and work on semantic change is, of course, no exception. Linguistic diversity does not imply that any such generalizations are meaningless or premature before these have been studied for all the world's languages. It does imply, though, that such generalizations gain a lot from careful systematic cross-linguistic research that may unveil cross-linguistic regularities behind diversity -which is foundational for linguistic typology. Here we will discuss several cases whereby such research has questioned earlier generalizations on semantic change based on the familiar languages and/or has come up with new hypotheses.• But given that the majority of the world's languages lack any written tradition and sizeable historical documents, how is it possible to study semantic changes they have undergone in the past? This is indeed a big challenge, but not an insurmountable one. We will discuss several methods which often combine a careful intragenetic comparison (i.e., comparison of closely related languages) and a broader cross-linguistic perspective and some of the results obtained by their application.

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2021

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“…Vaan [35] [36]; 11 • the LatinAffectus sentiment lexicon of Latin [37]; 12 • the collection of Ancient Greek loanwords in the Latin language Index Graecorum vocabulorum in linguam Latinam translatorum quaestiunculis auctus by G. Saalfeld [38] [39]; 13 • a manually checked set of 1,424 entries of the Latin WordNet [40]; 14 • the valency lexicon Latin Vallex [41]; 15 • the derivational lexicon Word Formation Latin [42]. 16 Both the lemma collection and the source (meta)data of the resources linked to LiLa (together with their Turtle files, which provide the RDF triples) are freely available from the GitHub page of the CIRCSE research center.…”

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Interlinking Valency Frames and WordNet Synsets in the LiLa Knowledge Base of Linguistic Resources for Latin

Mambrini¹,

Passarotti²,

Eleonora³

et al. 2021

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This paper describes the steps taken to model a valency lexicon for Latin (Latin Vallex) according to the principles of the Linked Data paradigm, and to interlink its valency frames with the lexical senses recorded in a manually checked subset of the Latin WordNet. The valency lexicon and the WordNet share lexical entries and are part of the LiLa Knowledge Base, which interlinks multiple linguistic resources for Latin. After describing the overall architecture of LiLa, as well as the structure of the lexical entries of Latin Vallex and Latin WordNet, the paper focuses on how valency frames have been modeled in LiLa, in line with a submodule of the Predicate Model for Ontologies (PreMOn) specifically created for the representation of grammatical valency. A mapping of the valency frames and the WordNet synsets assigned to the lexical entries shared by the two resources is detailed, as well as a number of queries that can be run across the interoperable resources for Latin currently included in LiLa.

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Enhancing Derivational Information on Latin Lemmas in the LiLa Knowledge Base. A Structural and Diachronic Extension

Pellegrini¹,

Passarotti²,

Litta³

et al. 2022

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Derivations and Connections: Word Formation in the LiLa Knowledge Base of Linguistic Resources for Latin

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2021

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2021

Interlinking Valency Frames and WordNet Synsets in the LiLa Knowledge Base of Linguistic Resources for Latin

Enhancing Derivational Information on Latin Lemmas in the LiLa Knowledge Base. A Structural and Diachronic Extension

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