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In this article we describe our ongoing attempts to use the Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) to model the morphological layer of a wide-coverage Italian lexical resource, Parole-Simple-Clips (PSC); in this case that subset of PSC dealing with Italian noun morphology. After giving a brief introduction to SWRL and to Italian noun morphology we go onto describe the actual transformation itself. Finally we describe an experiment on our dataset using SWRL rules and queries written in the Semantic Query-Enhanced Rule Web Language (SQWRL).
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Note that here we intend ‘extensional description’ to refer to cases in which the inflected forms of a lexeme are explicitly given in a lexicon, and ‘intensional’ to cases where such forms are represented implicitly through morphological patterns that can be used to generate them.
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See for instance the morphological pattern for the inflection of adjectives at http://www.tagmatica.fr/lmf/FrenchLMFTestSuites1.xml.
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Note that as we are looking at the use of SWRL explicitly as a Semantic Web-based rule language we will not, in this article, make comparisons between our work and the existing literature on modelling natural language morphology using other logic programming languages like Prolog. Our emphasis here is on making morphological data accessible using Semantic Web technologies.
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For a good introduction to Italian noun morphology see [4].
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These API’s can be found respectively at http://owlapi.sourceforge.net/ and https://github.com/protegeproject/swrlapi.
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This percentage is taken over the total number of nouns assigned to a morphological class.
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Khan, F., Bellandi, A., Frontini, F., Monachini, M. (2017). Using SWRL Rules to Model Noun Behaviour in Italian. In: Gracia, J., Bond, F., McCrae, J., Buitelaar, P., Chiarcos, C., Hellmann, S. (eds) Language, Data, and Knowledge. LDK 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10318. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59888-8_11
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