Lexical Semantic Resources in a Terminological Network

A research has been carried on and is still in progress aimed at the construction of three specialized lexicons organized as databases of relational type. The three databases contain terms belonging to the specialized knowledge fields of maritime terminology (technicalnautical and maritime transport domain), taxation law, and labour law with union labour rules, respectively. The EuroWordNet/ItalWordNet model was firstly used to structure the terminological database of maritime domain. The methodology experimented for its construction was applied to construct the next databases. It consists in i) the management of corpora of specialized languages and ii) the use of generic databases to identify and extract a set of candidate terms to be codified in the terminological databases. The three specialized resources are described highlighting the various kinds of lexical semantic relations linking each term to the others within the single terminological database and to the generic resources W...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Rita Marinelli, Adriana Roventini, Giovanni Spadoni, Sebastiana Cucurullo
• Keywords: Database, Education, LREC 2010, Specialized Lexicons, Terminological Database