Some Considerations in the Construction of a Historical Language WordNet

What it is about

The paper reports the manual construction of the emotion-term part of the Old English WordNet. The source is a set of spreadsheets by Díaz-Vera that groups Old English words with emotion meanings under the Geneva Emotion Wheel categories; the shame sheet alone has 77 entries. The workflow is fixed: take the lemma and sense gloss from the Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, fall back to Bosworth-Toller when the entry or sense is missing, pick the closest Open English WordNet synset as a pivot, and map to its Collaborative Interlingual Index identifier. Because the GWA LMF format cannot store a sense definition, etymology, grammatical gender or a shift between two senses, the authors extend it with an Etymology element, an EtyLink with a type, a gender attribute and a sense-definition element, and give an XSLT that converts back to the standard format. The worked example is the Old English word for "blushing and shame", which links two senses by resultative metonymy. The paper gives no accuracy figures.

Ideas

• I1. world/src/dictionary.rs: record the provenance of each sense as an enum (main dictionary, fallback dictionary, added by hand), and keep a fallback order in code. Each school sense then says where its gloss came from.
• I2. The sense-shift link as a typed edge between two senses in the pupil dictionary, with the kind as an enum. Count how many multi-sense school words have a shift that could be labelled.
• I3. Use a semantic field as a unit of evaluation: take one field (emotion or shame words) and test the SLM student on questions about it in the school lessons, so a single field can be measured before the whole lexicon is covered.

For Mova

Chapters: 19. The lexicon: vocabulary, multiword expressions and register (senses, registers), 16. Derivation I: prefixes (sense shifts through derivation). Code: world/src/dictionary.rs (school senses), en/src/dict.rs. Measure: the number of senses with a provenance tag, and the student's accuracy on the single-field test, run twice for determinism. The typed-link design follows the paper directly, and the paper's wordnet format is open; we can reuse the idea without copying the schema.

Cite

The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. DOI 10.18653/v1/2023.gwc-1.12

@inproceedings{khan2023some,
  title = {{Some Considerations in the Construction of a Historical Language WordNet}},
  author = {Khan, Anas Fahad and McCrae, John P. and Gómez, Francisco Javier Minaya and González, Rafael Cruz and Díaz-Vera, Javier E.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th Global Wordnet Conference},
  year = {2023},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2023.gwc-1.12},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.gwc-1.12}
}

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