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The Integral Dictionary: A Lexical Network Based on Componential Semantics

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Computational Science and Its Applications — ICCSA 2003 (ICCSA 2003)

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The Integral Dictionary is a comprehensive lexical network for French, English, German, Italian, and Spanish. It is based on componential semantics and lexical functions. The network structure superimposes two graphs. A first graph consists of a hierarchy of concepts divided into classes and themes where the words form the terminal nodes of the graph. A second graph links the words together using lexical functions derived from the Meaning-Text theory.

We first introduce the lexical network whose database for French words is comparable in its size to that of WordNet.We then describe two semantic distances to evaluate the proximity of two words in the graph and to find their distinctive semantic components. Finally, we give examples of applications we developed with it: the search of a word from a definition and the extraction of the semantic features of a text.

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  1. Memodata, 17, rue Dumont d’Urville, F-14000, Caen, France

    Dominique Dutoit & Patrick de Torcy

  2. CRISCO, Université de Caen, F-14032, Caen, France

    Dominique Dutoit

  3. LTH, Department of Computer science, Lund University, Box 118, S-221 00, Lund, Sweden

    Pierre Nugues

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  1. Army High Performance Computing Research Center, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N1N4, Canada

    Marina L. Gavrilova

  3. Heuchera Technologies Inc., 122 9251-8 Yonge Street, Richmond Hill, ON, Canada, L4C 9T3

    Chih Jeng Kenneth Tan

  4. Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationelle, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada

    Pierre L’Ecuyer

  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minessota, MN, 55455, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  6. The Queen’s University of Belfast, School of Computer Science, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK

    Chih Jeng Kenneth Tan

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Dutoit, D., Nugues, P., de Torcy, P. (2003). The Integral Dictionary: A Lexical Network Based on Componential Semantics. In: Kumar, V., Gavrilova, M.L., Tan, C.J.K., L’Ecuyer, P. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications — ICCSA 2003. ICCSA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2667. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44839-X_40

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