Use of Sense Marking for Improving WordNet Coverage

Neha Prabhugaonkar, Jyoti D. Pawar · 2014

WordNet is a crucial resource that aids in several Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks.The WordNet development activity for 18 Indian languages has been initiated in INDIA by the IndoWordNet 1 consortium using the expansion approach with the Hindi WordNet developed by IIT Bombay, as the source.After linking 20K synsets, it was decided that each of these languages should find the coverage of their respective language WordNets by using sense marker tool released by IIT Bombay.The sense marking activity mainly helped in validation of WordNet and improving the WordNet coverage.In this paper, the various effects that sense marking activity had on the Konkani 2 language Word-Net development are presented.

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