Romanian WordNet: New Developments and Applications
Dan Ioan Tufis, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Luigi Bozianu · 2006
Among the existing ontologies, the multilingual lexical ontologies have a special status. Structured in a similar way to standard ontologies, the lexical ones are distinguished by the fundamental requirement that each conceptualized entity is lexicalized by one or more synonymous words (a synset) of the natural language vocabulary. Multilingually aligned wordnets, such as EuroWordNet or BalkaNet, represent one step further with great promises in the domain of multilingual processing. This paper gives an account for the development and current status of the Romanian wordnet, aligned to the Princeton WordNet 2.0 (PWN2.0), and discusses some of its applications.