From the People’s Synonym Dictionary to fuzzy synsets - first steps
Lars Borin, Markus Forsberg · 2010
We present our ongoing work on creating fuzzy synsets for Swedish using the lexical resources Synlex and SALDO. Synlex is a graded synonym list created by asking members of the public – users of an online Swedish-English dictionary – to judge the degree of synonymy of a random, automatically generated synonym pair candidate. SALDO is a full-scale Swedish lexical-semantic resource with non-classical, associative relations among word and multiword senses, identified by persistent formal identifiers. We discuss two approaches for mapping Synlex synonym pairs to SALDO senses – transitive closure and clique formation – as well as our planned work for including other kinds of classical lexical-semantic relations from various existing free lexical resources, into Swesaurus, a multi-faceted resource for Swedish combining classical wordnet-type relations with the associative thesaurus relations from SALDO.