Using WordNet Predicates for Multilingual Named Entity Recognition
Matteo Negri, Bernardo Magnini · 2004
WordNet predicates (WN-PREDS) establish relations between words in a certain language and concepts of a language independent ontology. In this paper we show how WN-PREDS can be profitably used in the context of multilingual tasks where two or more wordnets are aligned. Specifically, we report about the extension to Italian of a previously developed Named Entity Recognition (NER) system for written English. Experimental results demonstrate the validity of the approach and confirm the suitability of WN-PREDS for a number of different NLP tasks.