VU Research Portal · 1997 · 21 citations · 3 references
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ComputingComputer ScienceLinguisticsComputational LinguisticsNatural Language ProcessingLanguage ModelingMachine TranslationMultilingual Natural Language ProcessingMultilingual ProcessingMultilingualismWord Sense DisambiguationMultilingual AnnotationMultilingual Information ExtractionMultilingual Word Embeddings
This paper discusses the design of the EuroWordNet database, in which semantic data-bases like WordNetl.5 for several languages are combined via a so-called inter-lingual-index. In this database, language-independent data is shared and language-specific properties are maintained as well. A special interface has been developed to compare the semantic onfigura-tions across languages and to track down differ-ences. The pragmatic design of the database makes it possible to gather empirical evidence for a common cross-linguistic ontology. 1 In t roduct ion EuroWordNet is an EC-funded project (LE2-4003) that
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