Onto.PT: Towards the Automatic Construction of a Lexical Ontology ...

6.1 Illustrative synonymy network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
6.2 Sub-network that results in one adjective cluster – Greek speaker. . . 106
6.3 Sub-network and resulting verb clusters – two meanings of ’splash’. . 106
6.4 Sub-network and resulting noun clusters – a person who: (A) gives
moral qualities; (B) evangelises; (C) spreads ideas; (D) is an active
member of a cause. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
7.1 Candidate synsets and lexical network for the ontologising examples. 115
7.2 Using RP to select the suitable synsets for ontologising {a R1 b},
given the candidate synsets and the network N in figure ??. . . . . . 116
7.3 Using AC to select the suitable synsets for ontologising {a R1 b},
given the candidate synsets and the network N in figure ??. . . . . . 117
7.4 Using NT to select the suitable synsets for ontologising {a R1 b},
given the candidate synsets and the network N in figure ??. . . . . . 118
7.5 Example of gold entries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
8.1 Diagram of the ECO approach for creating wordnets from text. . . . 131
8.2 Part of the Onto.PT RDF/OWL schema. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
8.3 Instances in the Onto.PT RDF/OWL model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
8.4 OntoBusca, Onto.PT’s web interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
8.5 Search example: breeds of dog in Onto.PT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
8.6 Category and VP expansions in Rapportágico, using Onto.PT. . . . . 151
8.7 Cloze question not answered correctly, using any of the resources. . . 154
8.8 Cloze question answered correctly using each resource. . . . . . . . . 155