KUI: Self-organizing Multi-lingual WordNet Construction Tool
Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Thatsanee Charoenporn, Kergrit Robkop, Hitoshi Isahara · 2007
Abstract. This paper describes a multi-lingual WordNet construction tool, called KUI (Knowledge Unifying Initiator), which is a knowledge user interface for online collaborative knowledge construction. KUI facilitates online community in developing and discussing multi-lingual WordNet. KUI is a sort of social networking system that unifies the various discussions following the process of thinking model, i.e. initiating the topic of interest, collecting the opinions to the selected topics, localizing the opinions through the translation or customization and finally posting for public hearing to conceptualize the knowledge. The process of thinking is done under the selectional preference simulated by voting mechanism in the case that there are many alternatives. By measuring the history of participation of each member, KUI adaptively manages the reliability of each member’s opinion and vote according to the estimated ExpertScore . As a result, the multi-lingual WordNet can be created online and produce a reliable result.