Toward Constructing the National Cancer Institute Thesaurus Derived WordNet (ncitWN)

• Main Authors: Hicks, Amanda, Seppälä, Selja, Bond, Francis
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Open Multilingual WordNet; National Cancer Institute Thesaurus
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88442; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44911; http://compling.hss.ntu.edu.sg/events/2018-gwc/pdfs/GWC2018_paper_17.pdf
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We describe preliminary work in the creation of the first specialized vocabulary to be integrated into the Open Multilingual Wordnet (OMW). The NCIt Derived WordNet (ncitWN) is based on the National Cancer Institute Thesaurus (NCIt), a controlled biomedical terminology that includes formal class restrictions and English definitions developed by groups of clinicians and terminologists. The ncitWN is created by converting the NCIt to the WordNet Lexical Markup Framework and adding semantic types. We report the development of a prototype ncitWN and first steps towards integrating it into the OMW.