Adding phonetic similarity data to a lexical database

• DOI: 10.1007/s10579-008-9069-5
• Publication Date: 2008-07-18T04:50:03Z
• Authors: Ruli Manurung; Graeme Ritchie; Helen Pain; Annalu Waller; Rolf Black; Dave O’Mara
• Keywords: WordNet; 4. Education; Lexical database; 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology; 410; Phonetic representation; 400

As part of a project to construct an interactive program which would encourage children to play with language by building jokes, we developed a lexical database, starting from WordNet. To the existing information about part of speech, synonymy, hyponymy, etc., we have added phonetic representations and phonetic similarity ratings for pairs of words/phrases.