Generating the missing links for semantic relations within Wiktionary.

In many cases, a single presentation of a term may carry multiple meanings. Wiktionary provides a way for viewing the meanings of the different terms it stores in the form of senses. It also provides semantic relations. However, Wiktionary, in its current form, contains semantic relations linking Wiktionary entries at the term level. Links for semantic relations connecting entries at the word sense level do not currently exist in Wiktionary. In this paper, we propose a novel method for generating a new type of links for semantic relations within Wiktionary. This is effectively applied to aligning the source words senses for semantic relations in Wiktionary with their corresponding target word senses. We use surface-level features that rely only on the structure and content of Wiktionary for completing this task without the aid of any external lexical or knowledge bases. We present the details of the method and how it was implemented. Additionally, we describe the evaluations that we performed and illustrate the competitive results we obtained, especially when compared to other systems. Our findings indicate that our system outperforms the baselines and performs similar to state-of-art systems without requiring access to external online resources or training data to run. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]