Watlink

Watlink is an automatic sense disambiguation method for asymmetric semantic relations. It requires a set of synsets and a set of pairs representing the relationships between words. It is also used to construct the Lexical Relations from the Wisdom of the Crowd (LRWC) dataset.

Unsupervised Sense-Aware Hypernymy Extraction Experiment

• Ustalov, D., Panchenko, A., Biemann, C., Ponzetto, S.P.: Unsupervised Sense-Aware Hypernymy Extraction. In: Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2018). pp. 192–201. ÖGAI, Vienna, Austria (2018)

@inproceedings{Ustalov:18:konvens,
  author    = {Ustalov, Dmitry and Panchenko, Alexander and Biemann, Chris and Ponzetto, Simone Paolo},
  title     = {{Unsupervised Sense-Aware Hypernymy Extraction}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS~2018)},
  year      = {2018},
  pages     = {192--201},
  address   = {Vienna, Austria},
  publisher = {\"{O}GAI},
  isbn      = {978-3-7001-8437-9},
  url       = {https://epub.oeaw.ac.at/0xc1aa5576_0x003a2444.pdf},
  language  = {english},
}

Hierarchical Context Expansion and LRWC Experiment

• Ustalov, D.: Expanding Hierarchical Contexts for Constructing a Semantic Word Network. In: Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies: Papers from the Annual conference “Dialogue”. Volume 1 of 2. Computational Linguistics: Practical Applications. pp. 369–381. RSUH, Moscow, Russia (2017)

@inproceedings{Ustalov:17:dialogue,
  author    = {Ustalov, Dmitry},
  title     = {{Expanding Hierarchical Contexts for Constructing a Semantic Word Network}},
  booktitle = {Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies: Papers from the Annual conference ``Dialogue''. Volume 1 of 2. Computational Linguistics: Practical Applications},
  year      = {2017},
  pages     = {369--381},
  url       = {http://www.dialog-21.ru/media/3959/ustalovda.pdf},
  address   = {Moscow, Russia},
  publisher = {RSUH},
  issn      = {2221-7932},
  language  = {english},
}

Datasets

The datasets are available for download on the Releases page.

See Also

• Watset, a synset induction method (and its implementation in Java)
• SenseGram, a vector representation experiment
• LRWC, dataset on lexical relations from the wisdom of the crowd

Copyright

This repository contains the implementation of Watlink. See LICENSE for details.