KOLON(the KOrean Lexicon mapped onto the Mikrokosmos ONtology): 한국어 어휘의 미크로코스모스 온톨로지로의 사상과 언어 자원의 결합

Abstract

The KOLON(KOrean Lexicon mapped onto the Mikrokosmos ONtology) is an output of our work of mapping Korean words onto the Mikrokosmos ontology with a view to building a Wordnet for Korean. Unlike other Wordnet-related resources, the KOLON aims at taking fully advantage of properties of a concept represented in a frame by inheriting them to lexicons. We mapped about 24,858 Korean words consisting of 7,386 nouns, 13,397 verbs and 4,075 adjectives so far. Since we keep adding lexical items and cleaning original mappings, the numbers are subject to change. Synonyms are grouped together for each concepts. The big difference between the KOLON and other Korean Wordnet-related resources in terms of synonyms comes from granularity. While other resources show a fine grained and very restricted set of synonyms, the work of mapping Korean words onto the Mikrokosmos ontology results in a wide coverage of synonym set, because a concept can cover many lexical items in a cognitive perspective. I described the mapping procedure in line with parts-of-speech, and pointed out strengths and weaknesses of the work. And I compared the KOLON with another Korean Wordnet, KorLex, and showed the ideological differences between the two efforts. I contend that the work described here can be a useful resource for a natural language processing and theoretical linguistic research. All the information and up-to-date lexical items can be checked on the website, http://word.snu.ac.kr/kolon.