ODASP

Ontology driven analysis of nominal systematic polysemy in WordNet

Coordinatore	CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE    more  Organization address address: Piazzale Aldo Moro 7 city: ROMA postcode: 185 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Maria Elisa Cognome: Rosati Email: send email Telefono: +39 06 44595 322 Fax: +39 06 44 362 368
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Italy [IT]
Totale costo	179˙739 €
EC contributo	179˙739 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-05-02   -   2015-05-01

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE  Organization address address: Piazzale Aldo Moro 7 city: ROMA postcode: 185 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Maria Elisa Cognome: Rosati Email: send email Telefono: +39 06 44595 322 Fax: +39 06 44 362 368	IT (ROMA)	coordinator	179˙739.60

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

Our societies increasingly depend on huge amounts of textual data stored in large repositories, e.g. on the Web, in government archives, etc. Developing ways of bringing order to, and handling, this unstructured information is thus a major challenge of our times. Some of the most promising approaches for enabling computers to represent the required conceptual information appear to be ontology based ones. It is the precise path taken by this project, in application to lexical databases and WordNet in particular.

The number of applications of WordNet (in natural language processing, knowledge management, and information systems) is rapidly growing despite its well-known defects. Among these flaws, the project focuses on the particular issue of nominal systematic polysemy. The strongly hierarchical structure of - WordNet, as of most lexical ontologies, cannot presently cope with this kind of ambiguity, as it involves orthogonal non-taxonomic relations between categories. As a result, systematic polysemy is treated in a rather ad hoc way in WordNet, compensating for missing orthogonal relations either by enumerating meanings as if disconnected, or by introducing problematic multiple inheritence. This lack of methodical treatment produces notorious incoherences and compromises the results of applications using WordNet.

The aim of this fellowship is to address these issues in an ontology driven approach, showing that systematic polysemy results from orthogonal dependence relations between the denoted entities. Drawing on philosophy and computational linguistics and ontology, our objective is to map patterns of nominal systematic polysemy into patterns of dependence.