Building Thai WordNet with a Bi-directional Translation Method

Author

Leenoi, Dhanon ; Supnithi, Thepchai ; Aroonmanakun, Wirote

Author_Institution

Nat. Electron. & Comput., Technol. Center Pathumthani, Pathumthani, Thailand

fYear

2009

fDate

7-9 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

48

Lastpage

52

Abstract

This research presents a method of building Thai WordNet using an automatic bi-directional translation system with two EnglishThai dictionaries, LEXiTRON and Thiengburanathum Dictionary. The former was compiled using a corpus-based approach, whilst the latter was compiled on the basis of the author´s expertise. The results show that using LEXiTRON gives an F-measure of 50.36 for synset aspect, and 25.01 for word aspect, while using the Thiengburanathum Dictionary results in F-measure of 64.51 for synset aspect and 34.54 for word aspect. Furthermore, for a combination of two dictionaries, the F-measure increases to 67.16 for synset aspect and 36.27 for word aspect.

Keywords

dictionaries; language translation; natural languages; word processing; F-measure; LEXiTRON; Thai WordNet; Thiengburanathum dictionary; bi-directional translation method; synset aspect; Art; Automatic testing; Bidirectional control; Databases; Dictionaries; Gold; Natural language processing; Natural languages; Standards development; Thesauri;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Asian Language Processing, 2009. IALP '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3904-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IALP.2009.19

Filename

5380796