Semantic Lexicons and Semantic Tagging: Towards Content Interoperability

Explore the challenges and future directions of computational linguistics in this lecture by Nicoletta Calzolari from 2004. Delve into the importance of large-scale language resources as the foundation for language technology. Examine European initiatives for building harmonized lexicons and understand the complementary relationship between computational lexicons and textual corpora. Learn about the concept of a "complete" computational lexicon that incorporates world knowledge and the limitations of static lexicons. Discover the need for dynamic systems that can enrich lexicons with information from large corpora, capturing language variations and flexibility. Investigate the challenges of semantic tagging and problems encountered in semantic annotation exercises. Consider the future of language resources in the context of the Semantic Web, exploring the shift towards open content interoperability standards and the vision of sharable knowledge available for processing on the Web.