Improving the Basque WordNet by Corpus Annotation
Eneko Agirre, Izaskun Aldezabal, Jone Etxeberria, Eli Izagirre, Karmele Mendizabal, Eli Pociello, Mikel Iruskieta, Ixa Nlp · 2006
This paper describes the methodology adopted to jointly develop the Basque WordNet and a hand annotated corpora (the Basque Semcor). This joint development allows for better motivated sense distinctions, and a tighter coupling between both resources. The methodology involves edition, tagging and refereeing tasks. We are currently half way though the nominal part of the 300.000 word corpus (roughly equivalent to a 500.000 word corpus for English). 1