Building a cross-lingual referential knowledge database using dictionaries

• Main Authors: Nariyama, Shigeko, Tanaka, Takaaki, Nichols, Eric, Bond, Francis, Nakaiwa, Hiromi
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Language::Japanese
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/92073; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6430
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Referential knowledge is vital for resolving various problems in NLP, such as anaphora resolution. For example, we have the referential knowledge that diagnose is most likely a member of the referential relation ‘doctor diagnose patient’s illness’. Nariyama et al. (2005) presented an inventory of su...