About Inferences in a Crowdsourced Lexical-Semantic Network
Mathieu Lafourcade, Manel Zarrouk, Alain Joubert · 2014
Automatically inferring new relations from already existing ones is a way to improve the quality of a lexical network by relation densification and error detection.In this paper, we devise such an approach for the JeuxDeMots lexical network, which is a freely avalaible lexical network for French.We first present deduction (generic to specific) and induction (specific to generic) which are two inference schemes ontologically founded.We then propose abduction as a third form of inference scheme, which exploits examples similar to a target term.