Beyond the Transfer-and-Merge Wordnet Construction: plWordNet and a Comparison with WordNet

Abstract

Wordnets are lexico-semantic resources essential in many NLP tasks. Princeton WordNet is the most widely known, and the most influential, among them. Word- nets for languages other than English tend to adopt unquestioningly WordNet's struc- ture and its net of lexicalised concepts. We discuss a large wordnet constructed inde- pendently of WordNet, upon a model with a small yet significant difference. A map- ping onto WordNet is under way; the large portions already linked open up a unique perspective on the comparison of similar but not fully compatible lexical resources. We also try to characterise numerically a wordnet's aptitude for NLP applications.