lemonUby Modelling

Basic Lexicography

lemonUby is based on the lemon model as proposed in the Monnet project. As such lemonUby has the following main elements used in the modelling

• Lexicon
• LexicalEntry
• LexicalSense
• Form
• Reference

In addition, synsets are considered the ontological reference and are modelled as SKOS Concepts, as such a basic example of a synset is as follows:

<lemon:LexicalEntry rdf:about="WN_LexicalEntry_397">
  <lemon:canonicalForm>
    <lemon:Form rdf:about="WN_LexicalEntry_397#CanonicalForm">
      <lemon:writtenRep xml:lang="eng">cat</lemon:writtenRep>
    </lemon:Form>
  </lemon:canonicalForm>
  <lemon:sense rdf:resource="WN_Sense_573"/>
  <lemon:sense rdf:resource="WN_Sense_574"/>
  <lemon:sense rdf:resource="WN_Sense_575"/>
  <lemon:sense rdf:resource="WN_Sense_576"/>
  <lemon:sense rdf:resource="WN_Sense_577"/>
  <lemon:sense rdf:resource="WN_Sense_578"/>
  <lemon:sense rdf:resource="WN_Sense_579"/>
</lemon:LexicalEntry>
<lemon:LexicalSense rdf:about="WN_Sense_573">
  <uby:index>5</uby:index>
  <lemon:reference rdf:resource="WN_Synset_16108"/>
</lemon:LexicalSense>
...
<skos:Concept rdf:about="WN_Synset_16108">
  <rdfs:comment xml:lang="eng">A whip with nine knotted cords</rdfs:comment>
</skos:Concept>

Further Examples

Much of the modelling is based on LMF, in particular the UBY-LMF and the Lexical Markup Framework in general. We also recommend that you consult the cookbook and in particular the LMF-lemon mapping given in the appendix.

lemonUby Specific modelling

• uby:index: This property is used to give the order of senses of a lexical entry (1 is the first order)

• uby:monolingualExternalRef: These give provenance information about how an element was derived from the original resource, for example a sense in the WordNet data is labelled as:

    <lemon:LexicalSense rdf:about="WN_Sense_573">
       <uby:monolingualExternalRef>
         <uby:externalReference>[POS: noun] cat%1:06:00::</uby:externalReference>
         <uby:externalSystem>Wordnet 3.0 part of speech and sense key</uby:externalSystem>
       </uby:monolingualExternalRef>`
    </lemon:LexicalSense>`

• uby:Frequency: This is used to indicate the frequency of a sense or lexical entry in a corpus. It has three properties: uby:corpus, uby:frequencyValue, uby:generator
• uby:SemanticLabel: This is used to give semantic information about certain senses or argument structures, it consists of a string uby:label and a uby:type or uby:quantification.

• uby:equivalent: This property is used to indicate translations of lexical entries that do not have a lexical entry, for example.