Skip to main content
Vai all'homepage della Commissione europea (si apre in una nuova finestra)
italiano italiano
CORDIS - Risultati della ricerca dell’UE
CORDIS
Contenuto archiviato il 2024-04-19

Acquisition of Lexical Knowledge

Obiettivo

The project builds on and extends the results achieved in ACQUILEX by continuing research on theoretical issues in the design of lexicons and constructing further and more substantial monolingual and multilingual knowledge base fragments on the basis of a mixture of MRDs and manual encoding. At the same time, the project intends to make considerable use of corpora as a further source of data for the semi-automatic construction of lexical resources. Substantial quantities of textual and spoken-transcribed corpora are rapidly becoming available within the academic and dictionary publishing communities. Whilst MRDs provide a highly-structured and focused source of lexical data, substantial corpora can supplement this information with information concerning usage, frequency, and so forth. The proposed project will develop the software tools required to enable efficient use of corpora and will utilise them in the development of dictionary databases and the lexical knowledge base. In addition, we plan to tap the expertise of professional lexicographers and of the dictionary publishing industry far more directly in the new project in the investigation of theoretical issues and by transfering the tools, techniques and insights of computational lexicology and lexicography to that community.
The research concerns the acquisition of lexical knowledge for natural language processing systems, semiautomatically from machine readable versions of conventional dictionaries (MRDs) for English, Spanish, Italian and Dutch.

The project involves research on theoretical issues in the design of lexicons and constructing further and more substantial monolingual and multilingual knowledge base fragments on the basis of a mixture of MRDs and manual encoding.

A more sophisticated lexical representation language capable of dealing with more complex defeasible phenomena, such as blocking, has been developed and a formal semantics for this formalism specified. Corpus analysis tools have been developed for collocational analysis and lexical tagging. Further multilingual lexicon fragments exemplifying these developments are being constructed.
APPROACH AND METHODS

Work on ACQUILEX can be divided into two areas: the development of a methodology and the construction of software tools to create lexical databases from MRDs and the subsequent construction of illustrative theoretically-motivated, lexical knowledge base fragments from these databases, using a further set of software tools designed to integrate, enrich and formalise the database information. The emphasis of effort in ACQUILEX was on the development of lexical databases from MRDs and the design and implementation of a lexical representation language to underpin the lexical knowledge base. In this project, the emphasis is on the exploitation of these databases and the lexical knowledge base framework in the construction of more and more substantial lexicon fragments, and on the investigation of theoretical issues in lexicon design within the context of the unique research environment provided by the lexical databases and analysed corpora.

POTENTIAL

The project aims to foster productive collaboration between the computational linguistic and lexicographical community. We envisage that the proposed research and training activities will contribute to improvements in the quality of (particularly bi/multilingual and learners') dictionaries, to improvements in the productivity of the dictionary publishing industry and will provide impetus to electronic publishing initiatives, in addition to the central goal of producing a multilingual lexical knowledge base which can be deployed in habitable and practical natural language processing applications.

Campo scientifico (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifica i progetti con EuroSciVoc, una tassonomia multilingue dei campi scientifici, attraverso un processo semi-automatico basato su tecniche NLP. Cfr.: Il Vocabolario Scientifico Europeo.

È necessario effettuare l’accesso o registrarsi per utilizzare questa funzione

Programma(i)

Programmi di finanziamento pluriennali che definiscono le priorità dell’UE in materia di ricerca e innovazione.

Argomento(i)

Gli inviti a presentare proposte sono suddivisi per argomenti. Un argomento definisce un’area o un tema specifico per il quale i candidati possono presentare proposte. La descrizione di un argomento comprende il suo ambito specifico e l’impatto previsto del progetto finanziato.

Dati non disponibili

Invito a presentare proposte

Procedura per invitare i candidati a presentare proposte di progetti, con l’obiettivo di ricevere finanziamenti dall’UE.

Dati non disponibili

Meccanismo di finanziamento

Meccanismo di finanziamento (o «Tipo di azione») all’interno di un programma con caratteristiche comuni. Specifica: l’ambito di ciò che viene finanziato; il tasso di rimborso; i criteri di valutazione specifici per qualificarsi per il finanziamento; l’uso di forme semplificate di costi come gli importi forfettari.

Dati non disponibili

Coordinatore

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Contributo UE
Nessun dato
Indirizzo
Trinity Lane, The Old Schools,
CB2 1TN CAMBRIDGE
Regno Unito

Mostra sulla mappa

Costo totale

I costi totali sostenuti dall’organizzazione per partecipare al progetto, compresi i costi diretti e indiretti. Questo importo è un sottoinsieme del bilancio complessivo del progetto.

Nessun dato

Partecipanti (7)

Il mio fascicolo 0 0