A resource-driven approach for anchoring linguistic resources to conceptual spaces

In this paper we introduce the ttcs system, so named after Terms To Conceptual Spaces, that exploits a resource-driven approach relying on BabelNet, NASARI and ConceptNet. ttcs takes in input a term and its context of usage and produces as output a specific type of vector-based semantic representation, where conceptual information is encoded through the Conceptual Spaces (a geometric framework for common-sense knowledge representation and reasoning). The system has been evaluated in a twofold experimentation. In the first case we assessed the quality of the extracted common-sense conceptual information with respect to human judgments with an online questionnaire. In the second one we compared the performances of a conceptual categorization system that was run twice, once fed with extracted annotations and once with hand-crafted annotations. In both cases the results are encouraging and provide precious insights to make substantial improvements.