Simple-Clips ongoing research: more information with less data by implementing inheritance
Riccardo Del Gratta, Nilda Ruimy, Antonio Toral · 2008
This paper presents the application of inheritance to the formal taxonomy (is-a) of a semantically rich Lexical Resource (LR) based on the Generative Lexicon theory, SIMPLE-CLIPS.The aim is to lighten the representation of its semantic layer by reducing the number of encoded relations.A prediction calculation on the impact of introducing inheritance as regards space occupancy is carried out, which yields a significant space reduction of 22%.This is corroborated by its actual application that reduces the number of explicitly encoded relations in this lexicon by 18.4%.Later on, we study the issues that inheritance poses to the Lexical Resources and discuss sensitive solutions, illustrated by examples, to tackle each of them.Finally, we present a discussion on the application of inheritance, from which two advantages arise: consistency enhancement and inference capabilities.