Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language, Innovation, Culture and Education 2015
ISBN 978-967-13140-6-7

WordNet Development of English-Thai-Lao-Vietnamese 1st Order Entity Words

Panornuang Sudasna Na Ayudhya

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

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