WordNet Development of English-Thai-Lao-Vietnamese 1st Order Entity Words
Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University, Thailand
ABSTRACT
WordNet is a kind of lexical database which is well-known and has the influence on many computational linguistic related applications. The purposes of this research were to examine the equivalent translation of English-Thai-Lao-Vietnamese words in the 1st Order Entity using bi-directional translation method and to develop WordNet from the selected equivalent translation of English-Thai-Lao-Vietnamese words in the 1st Order Entity. The equivalent translation of English-Thai-Lao-Vietnamese words in the 1st Order Entity was examined by bi-directional translation method using the native speakers of English, Thai, Lao, and Vietnamese as the key informants. They were asked to translate from source language to target languages and then from target to source language; for example, from English to Thai and from Thai to English. The bi-directional correctness was calculated using F-Measure in order to select the equivalent translation of English-Thai-Lao-Vietnamese words in the 1st Order Entity. The translation equivalent pairs of English-Thai-Lao-Vietnamese in the 1st Order Entity were selected. The English-Thai-Lao-Vietnamese WordNet was developed from the selected equivalent translation 1st Order Entity words.
KEYWORDS
WordNet, English-Thai-Lao-Vietnamese words, the 1st Order Entity, Equivalent Translation