Slides of the paper Using lexicography to characterise relations between species mentions in the biodiversity literature by Sandra Young at the 3rd Edition of the DATeCH2019 International Conference
6. PURPOSE OF RESEARCH
• Adapt lexicography techniques to perform an empirical evaluation of
nomenclature use in a specific corpus
• Use results of this to compare with existing ontologies
7. LEXICOGRAPHY
• Corpus-based analysis
• Patterns of language use
in context
• Use to define different
meanings of words
• Fluid and flexible,
multiple meanings the
norm
18. CONCLUSIONS
• Hierarchies identified using adapted Word Sketches
• Filtering options differ in relations highlighted
• Disambiguation of common name usage across scientific nomenclature
19. NEXT STEPS
• Identify specific characteristics of graph nodes for evaluation purposes
• Automatic evaluation of this data compared to existing ontologies
• Further research into contrasting qualities and uses of frequency versus
salience filtering
• Test on corpora with known ambiguities relating to nomenclature usage