Brazilian portuguese wordNet: a computational linguistic exercise of encoding bilingual relational lexicons
Bento Carlos Dias-da-Silva · 2010
This paper describes the methodology of encoding th e Brazilian Portuguese WordNet (WN.Br) synsets and the automatic mapping of WN.Brs conceptual relations of hyponymy, co- hyponymy, meronymy, cause, and entailment relations from Princeton WordNet (WN.Pr). After contextualizing the project and outlining the current lexical database structur e and its statistics, it is described the WN.Br editing tool tencode the synsets, its glosses and the equivalence EQ_RELATIO NS between WN.Br and WN.Pr synsets, and to select sample sentences from corpora. The conclusion samples the automatic generation of WN.Brs hyponymy and co-hyponymy conce ptual relations from WN.Pr and outlines the ongoing work.