Using OpenThesaurus for German text with LsrSenseInventoryResource

[Kai Weber]

The "Lexical and semantic resources" website of DKPro WSD states: 

"You can download OpenThesaurus for use with the de.tudarmstadt.ukp.dkpro.wsd.si.lsr module"

Yet I could not find any information about how to install and configure a working setup for this scenario. In this mailing list there is only some hint on how to write a resources.xml file for linking LsrSenseInventoryResource with a Wordnet installation. Is there any documentation, resource, or helpful hint anybody can point to on how to get started with writing a resources.xml config file for OpenThesaurus?

Best regards,

Kai Weber

pagina GmbH Publikationstechnologien

Softwareentwickler Digital Humanities

[Tristan Miller]

Dear Kai,

On 08/05/2019 16.30, 'Kai Weber' via DKPro WSD users wrote:
> The "Lexical and semantic resources" website of DKPro WSD states:
>
> "You can download OpenThesaurus

> <http://www.openthesaurus.de/about/download> for use with the

> |de.tudarmstadt.ukp.dkpro.wsd.si.lsr| module"
>
> Yet I could not find any information about how to install and configure
> a working setup for this scenario. In this mailing list there is only
> some hint on how to write a resources.xml file for linking
> LsrSenseInventoryResource with a Wordnet installation. Is there any
> documentation, resource, or helpful hint anybody can point to on how to
> get started with writing a resources.xml config file for OpenThesaurus?

OpenThesaurus support for DKPro WSD is provided through DKPro LSR, a
unified API for various lexical-semantic resources. DKPro LSR in turn
needs to be configured via a configuration file that you place in your
$DKPRO_HOME directory. Unfortunately, the lack of documentation on how
to create such a configuration file is a longstanding bug in the DKPro
LSR project [1]. I checked my own files and it seems I don't have a
working example that I can point you to. The best I can suggest is
either (a) try to figure out yourself the appropriate XML to add to the
resources.xml file, working from the WordNet example you've already
found and from the DKPro LSR source code [2], or (b) try getting in
touch with DKPro LSR's original developer, Torsten Zesch [3]. In the
meantime I'll try bumping the bug report to see if Torsten or someone
else can be persuaded to provide the necessary documentation.

Regards,
Tristan

[1] https://github.com/dkpro/dkpro-lsr/issues/8

[2] https://github.com/dkpro/dkpro-lsr/

[3] https://www.ltl.uni-due.de/team/torsten-zesch/

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