Enriching Linguistic Representation in the Cantonese Wordnet and Building the New Cantonese Wordnet Corpus

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022)

Abstract

This paper reports on the most recent improvements on the Cantonese Wordnet, a wordnet project started in 2019 (Sio and Morgado da Costa, 2019) with the aim of capturing and organizing lexico-semantic information of Hong Kong Cantonese. The improvements we present here extend both the breadth and depth of the Cantonese Wordnet: increasing the general coverage, adding functional categories, enriching verbal representations, as well as creating the Cantonese Wordnet Corpus – a corpus of handcrafted examples where individual senses are shown in context.