Year: 2014
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Research on the history of words has led to remarkable insights about language and also about the history of human civilization more generally.This paper presents the Etymological Wordnet, the first database that aims at making word origin information available as a large, machine-readable network of words in many languages.The information in this resource is obtained from Wiktionary.Extracting a network of etymological information from Wiktionary requires significant effort, as much of the etymological information is only given in prose.We rely on custom pattern matching techniques and mine a large network with over 500,000 word origin links as well as over 2 million derivational/compositional links.
Author: Gerard de Melo
Institution: Tsinghua University
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2250959792