WordNet is extensively used as a major lexical resource in NLP. However, its quality is far from perfect, and this alters the results of applications using it. We propose here to complement previous efforts for "cleaning up" the top-level of its ...

In the Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) task, sentence pairs are classified into one of three semantic relations: Entailment, Contradiction or Unknown. While we find some sentence pairs hold full entailments or contradictions, there are a number of ...

We propose a method to automatically align WordNet synsets and Wikipedia articles to obtain a sense inventory of higher coverage and quality. For each WordNet synset, we first extract a set of Wikipedia articles as alignment candidates; in a second step,...