Introducing Lexical Masks: a New Representation of Lexical Entries for Better Evaluation and Exchange of Lexicons

Bruno Cartoni, Daniel Calvelo Aros, Denny Vrandecic, Saran Lertpradit
2020 International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation  
The evaluation and exchange of large lexicon databases remains a challenge in many NLP applications. Despite the existence of commonly accepted standards for the format and the features used in a lexicon, there is still a lack of precise and interoperable requirement specifications about how lexical entries of a particular language should look like, both in terms of the numbers of forms and in terms of features associated with these forms. This paper presents the notion of "lexical masks", a
more » ... erful tool used to evaluate and exchange lexicon databases in many languages.
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