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Towards the Construction of a WordNet for Old English

What it is about

A design paper, not a results paper. The authors plan an Old English WordNet (OldEWN) that starts from the lemmas and short English glosses of Clark Hall's Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (second edition, 1916), which has about 36,744 lemma entries, many of them spelling variants. Candidate synsets are linked to the Open English WordNet with the Naisc system: a graph built from Old English collocations is compared with the modern WordNet graph, and link prediction ranks the candidates. Relations are copied across from the modern WordNet (the expand method), then checked by scholars. The distinctive choice is to treat figurative meaning as a first-class part of the structure. Sense-level links record metonymy and metaphor, and the Old English words are positioned against the Latin, Ancient Greek and Sanskrit WordNets. No accuracy figures are reported; the paper states that most of the work is still to be done.

Ideas

For Mova

Chapters: 10. Vocabulary: archaic words and false friends, 19. The lexicon: vocabulary, multiword expressions and register, 16. Derivation I: prefixes (sense shifts and compounds). Code: en/src/dict.rs, world/src/dictionary.rs, and the linker idea in the same crate. Measure: precision at 1 of the candidate senses and the share of school senses that carry a shift. The paper is non-commercial: use it for design only, and do not carry its data into a release.

Cite

The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work.

@inproceedings{khan2022construction,
  title = {{Towards the Construction of a WordNet for Old English}},
  author = {Khan, Anas Fahad and Gómez, Francisco J. Minaya and González, Rafael Cruz and Diakoff, Harry and Vera, Javier E. Diaz and McCrae, John P. and O'Loughlin, Ciara and Short, William Michael and Stolk, Sander},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.418/}
}

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