IWNLP: Inverse Wiktionary for Natural Language Processing

Nowadays, there are a lot of natural language processing pipelines that are based on training data created by a few experts. This paper examines how the proliferation of the internet and its collaborative application possibilities can be practically used for NLP. For that purpose, we examine how the German version of Wiktionary can be used for a lemmatization task. We introduce IWNLP, an opensource parser for Wiktionary, that reimplements several MediaWiki markup language templates for conjugated verbs and declined adjectives. The lemmatization task is evaluated on three German corpora on which we compare our results with existing software for lemmatization. With Wiktionary as a resource, we obtain a high accuracy for the lemmatization of nouns and can even improve on the results of existing software for the lemmatization of nouns.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2015
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Matthias Liebeck, Stefan Conrad 0001
• Keywords: ACL 2015, Computational Linguistics