The Multilingual design of the EuroWordNet Database
Piek T. J. M. Vossen, Wim Peters, Pedro Díez-Orzas · Digital Academic REpository of VU University Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) · 1997
This paper discusses the design of the EuroWordNet database, in which semantic databases like WordNet1.5 for several languages are combined via an inter-lingua. 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 configurations across languages and to track down differences. The pragmatic design of the database makes it possible to gather empirical evidence for a common cross-linguistic ontology. Abstract This paper discusses the design of the EuroWordNet database, in which semantic databases like WordNet1.5 for several languages are combined via a so-called interlingual -index. In this database, languageindependent data is shared and languagespecific properties are maintained as well. A special interface has been developed to compare the semantic configurations across languages and to track down differences. The pragmatic design of the database makes it possible...