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Towards a Crowd-Sourced WordNet for Colloquial English

Year: 2018

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Princeton WordNet is one of the most widely-used resources for natural language processing, but is updated only infrequently and cannot keep up with the fast-changing usage of the English language on social media platforms such as Twitter.The Colloquial WordNet aims to provide an open platform whereby anyone can contribute, while still following the structure of WordNet.Many crowdsourced lexical resources often have significant quality issues, and as such care must be taken in the design of the interface to ensure quality.In this paper, we present the development of a platform that can be opened on the Web to any lexicographer who wishes to contribute to this resource and the lexicographic methodology applied by this interface.

Source: Global WordNet Conference (GWC)

DOI: 10.18653/v1/2018.gwc-1.51

Authors: John P. McCrae, Ian Wood, Amanda Hicks

Institutions: Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway, Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, University of Florida Health, University of Florida

Language: English

Topic: Lexicography and Language Studies

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: University of Florida, Science Foundation Ireland, National Institutes of Health, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences