Crosslingual Countability Classification with EuroWordNet.
Leonoor van der Beek, Timothy J. Baldwin · 2003
We examine the hypothesis that noun countability is consistent for a given word semantics by way of a series of experiments involving EuroWordNet and the English and Dutch languages. The basic method involves determining a default set of countabilities for each EuroWordNet synset based on countability-mapped words in that synset, and testing the match between these countabilities and those of held-out words. As EuroWordNet provides crosslingual synset correspondences between Dutch and English, we are able to evaluate the method both monolingually for Dutch and English, and crosslingually between the two languages. We found that Dutch and English countabilities align as well cross-lingually as they do monolingually.