Slovenian Semantic Lexicon sloWNet-USAS 1.0

  Authors

Brglez, Mojca and Pahor de Maiti Tekavčič, Kristina

  Item identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1925

 Date issued

2024-03-10

 Type

lexicalConceptualResource, text

 Size

41135 entries

 Language(s)

Slovenian

 Description

This entry is an extension of the Slovenian semantic lexicon sloWNet 3.1 (http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1026) which is enriched with semantic tags following the USAS ontology. The USAS ontology (Piao et al., 2005) is part of the UCREL semantic analysis system and is used for general language semantic description (https://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/usas/). It consists of 21 major semantic fields (e.g., PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES [O4]) and more than 400 semantic subcategories (e.g., Temperature [O4.6], Temperature : Cold [O4.6-]) that group together words belonging to the same mental concepts. The semantic tags were translated into Slovene and then automatically mapped onto the sloWNet entries from the USAS semantic lexicon following the algorithmic steps described in the README file. This procedure assigned semantic tags to 41,135 unique entries. The semantic tags were also given concreteness scores, calculated according to the procedure described in the README file. The file USAS_sl_conc.tsv contains the complete USAS tagset, including the concreteness scores of semantic domains, and their Slovenian descriptions. The file sloWNet_USAS_1.0.tsv contains lexemes from sloWNet 3.1 paired with the semantic tag of their most literal, basic sense as identified by the algorithm, and all the semantic tag candidates from which the closest tag was sourced, in a tabular format. The resource was originally used to facilitate metaphor analysis, but can be helpful also for other tasks such as text classification and sentiment analysis.

 Publisher

Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana

 

Institute of Contemporary History

 Acknowledgement

Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS) P6-0436 "Digital humanities: resources, tools and methods"

Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS) P6-0215 "Slovene Language - Basic, Contrastive, and Applied Studies"

 Subject(s)

semantic lexicon semantic description semantic disambiguation semantic tags semantic ontology metaphor analysis concreteness abstractness semantic domains USAS ontology

 Collection(s)

CLARIN.SI data & tools

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