A Workshop on Restructuring Adjectives in WordNet

研讨会聚集了词汇资源的开发者和用户、语料库和计算语言学家以及自然语言处理方面的研究人员，讨论有针对性地重组词汇数据库WordNet中的形容词。提出了用反映维度形容词相对强度的有序标度来取代当前反义词周围形容词聚类的子集的具体建议，以及初步工作，证明了通过词汇-语义模式基于语料库构建标度的可行性及其对自然语言处理的潜在好处。讨论的主题包括：(1)编码标量属性的主要好处包括词义消除歧义、文本蕴涵和语言教学；(2)适用于提取数据以构建标度的语料库；(3)最近发展的AdjScales方法的局限性以及提取标量属性的替代或补充方法；以及(4)WordNet中标量形容词的建模。与会者评价了拟议的形容词重组的可行性、价值和与其自身工作的相关性以及未来研究和应用的潜力。将编写一份报告，其中包括该小组的介绍、讨论和建议，并通过WordNet网站免费分发。广泛使用的WordNet数据库的未来有针对性的发展方向，由来自广泛专家群体的代表阐明和商定，确保在语言技术和教育学的研究和应用方面取得重大成果。对于博士后研究员和研究生来说，研讨会提供了与该领域专家互动的独特机会。

The workshop gathers developers and users of lexical resources, corpus and computational linguists and researchers in natural language processing to discuss a targeted restructuring of the adjectives in the lexical database WordNet. Specific proposals for replacing a subset of the current clustering of adjectives around antonyms with ordered scales reflecting the relative intensity of dimensional adjectives, such as "big", "huge" and "gigantic", are presented along with preliminary work demonstrating the feasibility of corpus-based construction of scales by means of lexical-semantic patterns and their potential benefits for NLP. Discussion topics include (1) the principal benefits of encoding scalar properties for applications including word sense disambiguation, textual entailment and language pedagogy; (2) suitable corpora for extracting data for scale construction; (3) limitations of the recently-developed AdjScales method and alternative or complementary methods for extracting scalar properties; and (4) modeling of scalar adjectives in WordNet. Participants evaluate the proposed restructuring of adjectives for its feasibility, value and relevance to their own work and its potential for future research and applications. A report including the presentations, discussions and recommendations of the group will be prepared and freely disseminated via the WordNet website. The directions for targeted future developments of the widely used WordNet database as spelled out and agreed upon by representatives from a broad expert community assure significant consequences for research and applications in language technology and pedagogy. For a post-doctoral fellow and a graduate student the workshop provides a unique opportunity to interact with experts in the field.