Swesaurus; or, The Frankenstein Approach to Wordnet Construction
Lars Borin, Markus Forsberg · 2014
Swesaurus is a freely available (under a CC-BY license) Swedish wordnet under construction, built primarily by scavenging and recycling information from a number of existing lexical resources.Among its more unusual characteristics are graded lexical-semantic relations and inclusion of all parts of speech, not only open-class items.The materials at present within my command hardly appeared adequate to so arduous an undertaking, but I doubted not that I should ultimately succeed.I prepared myself for a multitude of reverses; my operations might be incessantly baffled, and at last my work be imperfect, yet when I considered the improvement which every day takes place in science and mechanics, I was encouraged to hope my present attempts would at least lay the foundations of future success.Nor could I consider the magnitude and complexity of my plan as any argument of its impracticability.[. . .] After having formed this determination and having spent some months in successfully collecting and arranging my materials, I began.(Shelley, 1818, Ch. 4)