Extending the NegEx lexicon for multiple languages

We translated an existing English negation lexicon (NegEx) to Swedish, French, and German and compared the lexicon on corpora from each language. We observed Zipf's law for all languages, i.e., a few phrases occur a large number of times, and a large number of phrases occur fewer times. Negatio...

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Published inMedinfo 2013 : proceedings of the 14th World Conference on Medical and Health Informatics Vol. 192; p. 677
Main Authors Chapman, Wendy W, Hillert, Dieter, Velupillai, Sumithra, Kvist, Maria, Skeppstedt, Maria, Chapman, Brian E, Conway, Mike, Tharp, Melissa, Mowery, Danielle L, Deleger, Louise
Format Journal Article Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands 2013
SeriesStudies in Health Technology and Informatics
Subjects
Artificial Intelligence
Computer and Systems Sciences
data- och systemvetenskap
France
Germany
knowledge representation
Medical Records Systems, Computerized
Natural Language Processing
Semantics
Sweden
Terminology as Topic
Translating
United States
Vocabulary, Controlled
Sweden
France
United States
Germany
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DOI10.3233/978-1-61499-289-9-677

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Abstract We translated an existing English negation lexicon (NegEx) to Swedish, French, and German and compared the lexicon on corpora from each language. We observed Zipf's law for all languages, i.e., a few phrases occur a large number of times, and a large number of phrases occur fewer times. Negation triggers "no" and "not" were common for all languages; however, other triggers varied considerably. The lexicon is available in OWL and RDF format and can be extended to other languages. We discuss the challenges in translating negation triggers to other languages and issues in representing multilingual lexical knowledge.
AbstractList We translated an existing English negation lexicon (NegEx) to Swedish, French, and German and compared the lexicon on corpora from each language. We observed Zipf’s law for all languages, i.e., a few phrases occur a large number of times, and a large number of phrases occur fewer times. Negation triggers “no” and “not” were common for all languages; however, other triggers varied considerably. The lexicon is available in OWL and RDF format and can be extended to other languages. We discuss the challenges in translating negation triggers to other languages and issues in representing multilingual lexical knowledge.
Author Kvist, Maria
Chapman, Wendy W
Velupillai, Sumithra
Skeppstedt, Maria
Conway, Mike
Tharp, Melissa
Hillert, Dieter
Chapman, Brian E
Mowery, Danielle L
Deleger, Louise
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Computer and Systems Sciences
data- och systemvetenskap
France
Germany
knowledge representation
Medical Records Systems, Computerized
Natural Language Processing
Semantics
Sweden
Terminology as Topic
Translating
United States
Vocabulary, Controlled
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