A Workshop on Restructuring Adjectives in WordNet

研讨会聚集了词汇资源、语料库、计算语言学家和自然语言处理研究人员的开发者和用户，讨论词汇数据库WordNet中形容词的有针对性的重组。本文提出了一些具体的建议，用反映维度形容词相对强度的有序尺度（如“big”、“huge”和“huge”）取代目前反义词周围形容词聚类的一部分，并初步证明了通过词汇语义模式构建基于语料库的尺度的可行性及其对NLP的潜在好处。讨论的主题包括(1)编码标量属性在词义消歧、文本蕴涵和语言教学等应用中的主要好处；(2)合适的语料库提取数据进行规模构建；(3)最近开发的AdjScales方法以及用于提取标量属性的替代或补充方法的局限性；(4)在WordNet中对标量形容词进行建模。参与者评估建议的形容词重组的可行性、价值和与他们自己工作的相关性以及未来研究和应用的潜力。我们会拟备一份报告，包括小组的介绍、讨论和建议，并在WordNet网站上免费发布。广泛使用的WordNet数据库的未来发展方向是由广泛的专家团体的代表详细说明和商定的，确保对语言技术和教育学的研究和应用产生重大影响。对于博士后研究员和研究生来说，研讨会提供了一个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.