A Major Wordnet for a Minority Language: Scottish Gaelic

Gabor Bella; Fiona Mcneill; Rody Gorman; Caoimhín Ó Donnaíle; Kirsty  MacDonald; Yamini Chandrashekar; Abed Alhakim Freihat; Fausto Giunchiglia

A Major Wordnet for a Minority Language: Scottish Gaelic

Gabor Bella, Fiona Mcneill, Rody Gorman, Caoimhín Ó Donnaíle, Kirsty MacDonald, Yamini Chandrashekar, Abed Alhakim Freihat, Fausto Giunchiglia

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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
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
Abbreviated title	LREC 2020
Country/Territory	France
City	Marseille
Period	11/05/20 → 16/05/20
Internet address	https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/

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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Bella, G., Mcneill, F., Gorman, R., Ó Donnaíle, C., MacDonald, K., Chandrashekar, Y., Freihat, A. A., & Giunchiglia, F. (2020). A Major Wordnet for a Minority Language: Scottish Gaelic. In Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020) (pp. 2812-2818). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.342

Bella, Gabor ; Mcneill, Fiona ; Gorman, Rody ; Ó Donnaíle, Caoimhín ; MacDonald, Kirsty ; Chandrashekar, Yamini ; Freihat, Abed Alhakim ; Giunchiglia, Fausto. / A Major Wordnet for a Minority Language: Scottish Gaelic. Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2020. pp. 2812-2818

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Bella, G, Mcneill, F, Gorman, R, Ó Donnaíle, C, MacDonald, K, Chandrashekar, Y, Freihat, AA & Giunchiglia, F 2020, A Major Wordnet for a Minority Language: Scottish Gaelic. in Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 2812-2818, 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marseille, France, 11/05/20. <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.342>

A Major Wordnet for a Minority Language: Scottish Gaelic. / Bella, Gabor; Mcneill, Fiona; Gorman, Rody; Ó Donnaíle, Caoimhín; MacDonald, Kirsty ; Chandrashekar, Yamini; Freihat, Abed Alhakim; Giunchiglia, Fausto.

Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2020. p. 2812-2818.

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