Lexical Resources
Enriching Wordnets with New Relations and with Event and Argument Structures
Raquel Amaro1
, Rui Pedro Chaves1
, Palmira Marrafa1, 2
and Sara Mendes1 
| (1) |
CLG – Group for the Computation of Lexical and Grammatical Knowledge, Center of Linguistics, University of Lisbon, Portugal |
| (2) |
Department of Linguistics of the Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon, Portugal |
Abstract
This paper argues that wordnets, being concept-based computational lexica, should include information on event and argument
structures. This general approach is relevant both for allowing computational grammars to cope with a number of different
lexical semantics phenomena, as well as for enabling inference applications to obtain finer-grained results. We also propose
new relations in order to adequately model non explicit information and cross-part-of-speech relations.
The research reported in this paper has been partially supported by Instituto Camões, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and Fundação
para a Ciência e Tecnologia through the WordNet.PT, UniNet.PT, and COMPGRAM projects.