Papers by Rody Gorman
A Major Wordnet for a Minority Language: Scottish Gaelic (2020.lrec-1)
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Gábor Bella, Fiona McNeill, Rody Gorman, Caoimhin O Donnaile, Kirsty MacDonald, Yamini Chandrashekar, Abed Alhakim Freihat, Fausto Giunchiglia
| Challenge: | a new wordnet resource is available for Scottish Gaelic, a minority language spoken by 60,000 speakers . weak online presence of minority languages is a problem due to lack of digital corpora, authors say . |
| Approach: | They propose a new wordnet resource for Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic minority language . the wordnet contains over 15 thousand word senses and is among the 30 largest in the world . authors hope to contribute to long-term preservation of Scottish Gaels as a living language - offline and on the Web . |
| Outcome: | The new wordnet is for Scottish Gaelic, a minority language spoken by 60,000 speakers . the wordnet contains over 15 thousand word senses and is among the 30 largest in the world . authors hope it will contribute to the long-term preservation of the language, both offline and on the Web . |