Building a lexical database for an interactive joke-generator

R. Manurung; D. O'Mara; H. Pain; G. Ritchie; A. Waller

Building a lexical database for an interactive joke-generator

R. Manurung, D. O'Mara, H. Pain, G. Ritchie, A. Waller

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

As part of a project to construct an interactive program which will encourage children to play with language by building jokes, we have developed a large lexical database, closely based on WordNet. As well as the standard WordNet information about part of speech, synonymy, hyponymy, etc, we have added phonetic representations and symbolic links allowing attachment of pictures. All information is represented in a relational database, allowing powerful searches using SQL via a Java API. The lexicon has a facility to label subsets of the lexicon with symbolic names, and we are working to incorporate some educationally relevant word lists as sublexicons. This should also allow us to improve the familiarity ratings which the lexicon assigns to words.

Original language	English
Pages	1738-1741
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2006
Event	5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2006 - Genoa, Italy Duration: 22 May 2006 → 28 May 2006

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Conference	5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2006
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Genoa
Period	22/05/06 → 28/05/06

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