Building the Global WordNet Grid
Adam Pease, Christiane Fellbaum, Piek T. J. M. Vossen · 2008
Global WordNet consortium was formed to encourage this growth and to maximize sharing and interoperability of tools and methods; another ma-jor goal is to ensure the interlinking of the databases ’ lexical contents. But efforts towards interconnection and reusability have progressed un-evenly and opportunistically within the community of wordnet develop-ers. Attempts to link lexical elements have primarily relied on Prince-ton's English WordNet as a "hub". This presents obvious problems, as English does not lexicalize the same concepts as other languages; as a re-sult, wordnets following this approach might well be biased towards the structure and lexical coverage of English. Another, language-indepen-dent approach is needed. At the Third Global WordNet Association con-ference (Sojka et al. 2006), a proposal was made for building a compre-hensive worldwide wordnet Grid, free of language-specific biases. A semantic network like WordNet shows structural gaps, where the ge-ometry of the arcs expressing semantic relations would require a word,