One Language to rule them all: Modelling Morphological Patterns in a Large Scale Italian Lexicon with SWRL

Fahad Khan (1) , Andrea Bellandi (1) , Francesca Frontini (2) , Monica Monachini (1)

1 CNR-ILC - Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio Zampolli"
2 Praxiling - Praxiling

We present an application of Semantic Web Technologies to computational lexicography. More precisely we describe the publication of the morphological layer of the Italian Parole Simple Clips lexicon (PSC-M) as linked open data. The novelty of our work is in the use of the Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) to encode morphological patterns, thereby allowing the automatic derivation of the inflectional variants of the entries in the lexicon. By doing so we make these patterns available in a form that is human readable and that therefore gives a comprehensive morphological description of a large number of Italian words.

Mots clés: SQWRL; SWRL; Italian Lexicon; Linked Open Data; Morphology

Domaines: Linguistique

Fahad Khan, Andrea Bellandi, Francesca Frontini, Monica Monachini. One Language to rule them all: Modelling Morphological Patterns in a Large Scale Italian Lexicon with SWRL. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation - LREC2018, 2018, Miyazaki, Japan. ⟨hal-01832652⟩