Dordrecht Springer 2010 Paperback New. 180 p. IV, 180 p. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.

ISBN10: 9048151201, ISBN13: 9789048151202, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Softcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book describes the main objective of EuroWordNet, which is the building of a multilingual database with lexical semantic networks or wordnets for several European languages. Each wordnet in the database represents a language-specific structure due to the unique lexicalization of concepts in languages. The concepts are inter-linked via a separate Inter-Lingual-Index, where equivalent concepts across languages should share the same index item. The flexible multilingual design of the database makes it possible to compare the lexicalizations and semantic structures, revealing answers to fundamental linguistic and philosophical questions which could never be answered before. How consistent are lexical semantic networks across languages, what are the language-specific differences of these networks, is there a language-universal ontology, how much information can be shared across languages First attempts to answer these questions are given in the form of a set of shared or common Base Concepts that has been derived from the separate wordnets and their classification by a language-neutral top-ontology. These Base Concepts play a fundamental role in several wordnets. Nevertheless, the database may also serve many practical needs with respect to (cross-language) information retrieval, machine translation tools, language generation tool ...
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ISBN10: 9048151201, ISBN13: 9789048151202, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Softcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book describes the main objective of EuroWordNet, which is the building of a multilingual database with lexical semantic networks or wordnets for several European languages. Each wordnet in the database represents a language-specific structure due to the unique lexicalization of concepts in languages. The concepts are inter-linked via a separate Inter-Lingual-Index, where equivalent concepts across languages should share the same index item. The flexible multilingual design of the database makes it possible to compare the lexicalizations and semantic structures, revealing answers to fundamental linguistic and philosophical questions which could never be answered before. How consistent are lexical semantic networks across languages, what are the language-specific differences of these networks, is there a language-universal ontology, how much information can be shared across languages First attempts to answer these questions are given in the form of a set of shared or common Base Concepts that has been derived from the separate wordnets and their classification by a language-neutral top-ontology. These Base Concepts play a fundamental role in several wordnets. Nevertheless, the database may also serve many practical needs with respect to (cross-language) information retrieval, machine translation tools, language generation tool ...
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Dordrecht Springer 2010 Paperback New. IV, 180 p. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.

Springer Netherlands, Date: 1998. Paperback. New. 184 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. 1998. Springer Netherlands ISBN 9048151201 9789048151202 [GB]

ISBN10: 9048151201, ISBN13: 9789048151202, [publisher: Springer] Softcover Editor(s): Vossen, Piek. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; UND; UYQ; UYZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 9. Weight in Grams: 290. . 2010. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998. Paperback. . . . .
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