Free construction of a free Swedish dictionary of synonyms
Viggo Kann, Magnus Rosell · DSpace repository (University of Tartu) · 2005
Building a large dictionary of synonyms for a language is a very tedious task.Hence there exist very few synonym dictionaries for most languages, and those that exist are generally not freely available due to the amount of work that have been put into them.The Lexin on-line dictionary 1 is a very popular web-site for translations of Swedish words to about ten different languages.By letting users on this site grade automatically generated possible synonym pairs a free dictionary of Swedish synonyms has been created.The lexicon reflects the users intuitive definition of synonymity and the amount of work put into the project is only as much as the participants want to.