Towards the Addition of Pronunciation Information to Lexical Semantic Resources Thierry Declerck Lenka Bajcetiˇ c´ German Research Center for AI Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Multilinguality and Language Technology Cultural Heritage Stuhsatzenhausweg 3 Sonnenfelsgasse 19 D-66123 Saarbrucken¨ Germany Wien 1010, Austria
[email protected] [email protected] Abstract plified in the combination of the IPA3 code [/lEd/] and the definition: This paper describes ongoing work aiming at adding pronunciation information to lexical se- (“A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal ele- mantic resources, with a focus on open word- ment, having a bright, bluish color, but nets. Our goal is not only to add a new modal- easily tarnished; both malleable and duc- ity to those semantic networks, but also to tile,though with little tenacity. It is easily mark heteronyms listed in them with the pro- fusible, forms alloys with other metals, nunciation information associated with their and is an ingredient of solder and type different meanings. This work could con- metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb tribute in the longer term to the disambigua- tion of multi-modal resources, which are com- (from Latin plumbum).”) bining text and speech. and of the IPA code [/li:d/] and the definition: 1 Introduction (“The act of leading or conducting; guid- ance; direction, course”). The work described in this paper aims at enriching lexical semantic databases by adding the modality This phenomenon is called “heteronymy”. Al- of pronunciation, primarily targeting in our current though they share the same spelling, heteronyms work the Open English WordNet (McCrae et al., have two different possible pronunciations that are 2019a, 2020).1 Pronunciation information is typi- associated with two (or more) different meanings cally not associated with WordNet, but can be par- (Martin et al., 1981).