AN APPROACH FOR INTERCONNECTING LEXICAL RESOURCES

Nowadays, great efforts are being made to enhance the utility of linguistic resources in applications related to language processing by interconnecting them. In this study we focus on Romanian, one of the European languages that has still to make big steps until being considered well resourced, from the point of view of interconnection of linguistic resources. As a case study, we refer to the tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) problem, i.e. how to help a human to remind a word that is not immediately reachable in memory, a problem that has received some attention-recently. The Romanian resources used in this study are: RoWordNet, DEX-Online, the COROLA corpus and a collection of semantically organised words. Our solution considers first a unification of the representation format of the initial lexical resources, followed by their combination in view of making possible a navigation process that would not be concerned with some specific representation of data. The application of our method to the TOT problem makes a step forward towards building a tool that would help people getting fluency and continuity of ideas in communication. Seen more generally, the interconnection method proposed can be useful to researchers in natural language processing and linguists interested in combining different lexical resources.