Abstract
We present a new wordnet resource for Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic minority language spoken by about 60,000 speakers, most of whom live in Northwestern Scotland. The wordnet contains over 15 thousand word senses and was constructed by merging ten thousand new, high-quality translations, provided and validated by language experts, with an existing wordnet derived from Wiktionary. This new, considerably extended wordnet—currently among the 30 largest in the world—targets multiple communities: language speakers and learners; linguists; computer scientists solving problems related to natural language processing. By publishing it as a freely downloadable resource, we hope to contribute to the long-term preservation of Scottish Gaelic as a living language, both offline and on the Web.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020) |
Publisher | European Language Resources Association (ELRA) |
Pages | 2812-2818 |
Number of pages | 7 |
ISBN (Print) | 979-10-95546-34-4 |
Publication status | Published - 16 May 2020 |
Event | 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference - Le Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France Duration: 11 May 2020 → 16 May 2020 Conference number: 12 https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/ |
Conference
Conference | 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference |
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Abbreviated title | LREC 2020 |
Country/Territory | France |
City | Marseille |
Period | 11/05/20 → 16/05/20 |
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Keywords
- wordnet
- Scottish Gaelic
- under-resourced languages
- minority language
- lexical semantics
- translation
- lexical gap
- language diversity
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Fiona Mcneill
- School of Informatics - Reader in Computer Science Education
- Institute of Language, Cognition and Computation
- Language, Interaction and Robotics
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