Publication
Towards a Sense-based Access to Related Online Lexical Resources
Thierry Declerck; Karlheinz Mörth
In: Tinatin Margalitadze; George Meladze (Hrsg.). Proceedings of the XVII EURALEX International Congress. EURALEX International Congress (EURALEX-16), Lexicography and Linguistic Diversity, September 6-10, Tbilissi, Georgia, Pages 660-668, ISBN 978-9941-13-542-2, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi University Press, Tbilissi, 9/2016.
Abstract
We present an approach aiming at a method to support sense-based
cross-dialectal – and cross-lexicon – access to dictionaries of spoken Arabic varieties.
The original lexical data consists of three TEI P5 encoded dictionaries
describing varieties spoken in Cairo, Damascus and Tunis. This
data is included in the Vienna Corpus of Arabic Varieties (VICAV). We briefly present this data,
before summarizing the TEI approach for encoding senses in lexical resources. We discuss certain
issues related to the TEI representation when it comes to the possibility to provide for a sense-based
access to the lexical data. We investigate the use of the recent W3C On
tology-Lexicon Community Group (OntoLex) modeling work and present first re
sults of the mapping of the TEI encoded data onto its
ontolex model and show how this new representation format can efficiently support
cross-dictionary sense-based access.