Wim Peters

Also published as: W. Peters


2016

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Legal Text Interpretation: Identifying Hohfeldian Relations from Text
Wim Peters | Adam Wyner
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)

The paper investigates the extent of the support semi-automatic analysis can provide for the specific task of assigning Hohfeldian relations of Duty, using the General Architecture for Text Engineering tool for the automated extraction of Duty instances and the bearers of associated roles. The outcome of the analysis supports scholars in identifying Hohfeldian structures in legal text when performing close reading of the texts. A cyclic workflow involving automated annotation and expert feedback will incrementally increase the quality and coverage of the automatic extraction process, and increasingly reduce the amount of manual work required of the scholar.

2015

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Argument Discovery and Extraction with the Argument Workbench
Adam Wyner | Wim Peters | David Price
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Argumentation Mining

2008

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Evaluating Evaluation Metrics for Ontology-Based Applications: Infinite Reflection
Diana Maynard | Wim Peters | Yaoyong Li
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)

In this paper, we discuss methods of measuring the performance of ontology-based information extraction systems. We focus particularly on the Balanced Distance Metric (BDM), a new metric we have proposed which aims to take into account the more flexible nature of ontologically-based applications. We first examine why traditional Precision and Recall metrics, as used for flat information extraction tasks, are inadequate when dealing with ontologies. We then describe the Balanced Distance Metric (BDM) which takes ontological similarity into account. Finally, we discuss a range of experiments designed to test the accuracy and usefulness of the BDM when compared with traditional metrics and with a standard distance-based metric.

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Modelling Multilinguality in Ontologies
Elena Montiel-Ponsoda | Guadalupe Aguado de Cea | Asunción Gómez-Pérez | Wim Peters
Coling 2008: Companion volume: Posters

2006

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Creating Tools for Morphological Analysis of Sumerian
Valentin Tablan | Wim Peters | Diana Maynard | Hamish Cunningham
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06)

Sumerian is a long-extinct language documented throughout the ancient MiddleEast, arguably the first language for which we have written evidence, and is a language isolate (i.e. no related languages have so far been identified). The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL), based at theUniversity of Oxford, aims to make accessible on the web over 350 literary workscomposed during the late third and early second millennia BCE. The transliterations and translations can be searched, browsed and read online using the tools of the website. In this paper we describe the creation of linguistic analysis and corpus search tools for Sumerian, as part of the development of the ETCSL. This is designed to enable Sumerian scholars, students and interested laymen to analyse the texts online and electronically, and to further knowledge about the language.

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The LOIS Project
Wim Peters | Maria Teresa Sagri | Daniela Tiscornia | Sara Castagnoli
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06)

The LOIS (Lexical Ontologies for legal Information Sharing) project The legal knowledge base resulting from the LOIS (Lexical Ontologies for legal Information Sharing) (Lexical Ontologies for legal Information Sharing) project consists of legal WordNets in six languages (Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, German, Czech, English). Its architecture is based on the EuroWordNet (EWN) framework (Vossen et al, 1997). Using the EWN framework assures compatibility of the LOIS WordNets with EWN, allowing them to function as an extension of EWN for the legal domain. For each legal system, the document-derived legal concepts are integrated into a taxonomy, which links into existing formal ontologies. These give the legal wordnets a first formal backbone, which can, in future, be further extended. The database consists of 33,000 synsets, and is aimed to be used in information retrieval, where it provides mono- and multi-lingual access to European legal databases for legal experts as well as for laymen. The LOIS knowledge base also provides a flexible, modular architecture that allows integration of multiple classification schemes, and enables the comparison of legal systems by exploring translation, equivalence and structure across the different legal wordnets.

2004

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Incremental Knowledge Acquisition from WordNet and EuroWordNet
Wim Peters
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’04)

2003

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Metonymy as a Cross-lingual Phenomenon
Wim Peters
Proceedings of the ACL 2003 Workshop on the Lexicon and Figurative Language

2002

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Analysis of Lexical Structures from Field Linguistics and Language Engineering
P. Wittenburg | W. Peters | S. Drude
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’02)

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Metadata Proposals for Corpora and Lexica
P. Wittenburg | W. Peters | D. Broeder
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’02)

2000

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SIMPLE: A General Framework for the Development of Multilingual Lexicons
Nuria Bel | Federica Busa | Nicoletta Calzolari | Elisabetta Gola | Alessandro Lenci | Monica Monachini | Antoine Ogonowski | Ivonne Peters | Wim Peters | Nilda Ruimy | Marta Villegas | Antonio Zampolli
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’00)

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Lexicalised Systematic Polysemy in WordNet
Wim Peters | Ivonne Peters
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’00)

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The Treatment of Adjectives in SIMPLE: Theoretical Observations
Ivonne Peters | Wim Peters
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’00)

1999

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Towards a Universal Index of Meaning
Piek Vossen | Wim Peters | Julio Gonzalo
SIGLEX99: Standardizing Lexical Resources

1997

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Multilingual design of EuroWordNet
Piek Vossen | Pedro Diez-Orzas | Wim Peters
Automatic Information Extraction and Building of Lexical Semantic Resources for NLP Applications