Introduction to EuroWordNet

This paper gives a global introduction to the aims and objectives of the EuroWordNet project, and it provides a general framework for the other papers in this volume. EuroWordNet is an EC project that develops a multilingual database with wordnets in several European languages, structured along the...

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Published in:Computers and the humanities 1998-01, Vol.32 (2/3), p.73-89
Main Author: Vossen, Piek
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Database design
Domain ontologies
European languages
Information resources
Information retrieval
Language
Multilingualism
Police cars
Projects
Semantics
Vocabulary
Words
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Summary:This paper gives a global introduction to the aims and objectives of the EuroWordNet project, and it provides a general framework for the other papers in this volume. EuroWordNet is an EC project that develops a multilingual database with wordnets in several European languages, structured along the same lines as the Princeton WordNet. Each wordnet represents an autonomous structure of language-specific lexicalizations, which are interconnected via an Inter-Lingual-Index. The wordnets are built at different sites from existing resources, starting from a shared level of basic concepts and extended top-down. The results will be publicly available and will be tested in cross-language information retrieval applications.
ISSN:0010-4817
1574-020X
1574-0218
DOI:10.1023/a:1001175424222