Large-scale acquisition of LCS-based lexicons for foreign language tutoring

TitleLarge-scale acquisition of LCS-based lexicons for foreign language tutoring
Publication TypeConference Papers
Year of Publication1997
AuthorsDorr BJ
Conference NameProceedings of the fifth conference on Applied natural language processing
Date Published1997///
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics
Conference LocationStroudsburg, PA, USA
Abstract

We focus on the problem of building large repositories of lexical conceptual structure (LCS) representations for verbs in multiple languages. One of the man results of this work is the definition of a relation between broad semantic classes and LCS meaning components. Our acquisition program---LEXICALL---takes, as input, the result of previous work on verb classification and thematic grid tagging, and outputs LCS representations for different languages. These representations have been ported into English. Arabic and Spanish lexicons, each containing approximately 9000 verbs. We are currently using these lexicons in an operational foreign language tutoring and machine translation.

URLhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3115/974557.974578
DOI10.3115/974557.974578