The Compreno Semantic Model as an Integral Framework for a Multilingual Lexical Database

摘要

The paper presents an integral framework for multilingual lexical databases (henceforth MLLD) based on Compreno technology. It differs from the existing approaches to MLLD in the following aspects: 1) it is based on a universal semantic hierarchy (SH) of thesaurus type filled with language-specific lexicon; 2) the position in the SH generally determines semantic and syntactic model of a word; 3) this model proposes a suite of elaborate tools to determine universal and language-specific semantic and syntactic properties and deals efficiently with problems of cross-lingual lexical, semantic and syntactic asymmetry. Currently, it includes English, Russian, German, French and Chinese and proves to be a compatible MLLD for typologically different languages that can be used as a comprehensive lexical-semantic database for various NLP applications.