Towards Producing Human-Validated Translation Resources for the Fula language throughWordNet Linking

Mrini, Khalil; Benjamin, Martin

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“…This does not mean, however, that the remaining 28% of terms are strictly indigenous. For example, the source dictionary has the term "annduâo" that is described in English as "person who is knowledgeable, wise", whereas PWN has "wise man" that is arguably the same concept, and was missed by our automated process (Mrini & Benjamin, 2017). As with corpus mining, additional human review can line up some dictionary terms with PWN, and highlight the remainders as indigenous.…”

Section: Missing Indigenous Conceptsmentioning

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Inside Baseball: Coverage, quality, and culture in the Global WordNet

Benjamin

2018

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The Global WordNet is succeeding in producing relatively open linguistic data that is coordinated to a degree among numerous languages. The project has grown organically, with no overall plan or direction. The result is a certain amount of incoherence in determining what items should be treated in wordnets, and how the various wordnets should aspire to consistent quality. Using the example of terms related to baseball, which constitute a non-trivial portion of the Princeton WordNet, this paper discusses problems of coverage selection both for English and for other languages, as well as methods to improve quality and depth through public review of current content, and contribution of missing terms and definitions. It is proposed that proper names be removed entirely from WordNet and treated as a separate project, and that individual languages produce annexes of indigenous concepts that can be readily considered within sister projects as a supplement to the Anglo-American weighting of the current endeavor. To produce a consistent product that transmits inter-intelligible understanding at a high level across languages, it is proposed that an open committee of interested stakeholders convene to consider the project's goals and develop a roadmap for how to achieve them.

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Section: Missing Indigenous Conceptsmentioning

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Inside Baseball: Coverage, quality, and culture in the Global WordNet

Benjamin

2018

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Towards Producing Human-Validated Translation Resources for the Fula language throughWordNet Linking

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Inside Baseball: Coverage, quality, and culture in the Global WordNet

Inside Baseball: Coverage, quality, and culture in the Global WordNet

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