Using WordNet for linking UWs to the UNL UW System
Luis Iraola · 2005
Abstract This paper presents the work done with the Spanish-UNL dictionary compiled at the Spanish Language Centre in order to enrich the universal words it contained with the supplementary semantic information required to produce a master entries dictionary. Focussing on a subset of the Spanish-UNL dictionary, namely on the substantives it contains, the work has consisted in automatically enrich the universal word associated with each substantive with the semantic information required to link the universal word to the Universal Word System. For this process, WordNet has been employed as an external source of semantic information and used in addition to semantic features already present in the dictionary. The results achieved are not final and further work is required for a fully automatic, high quality semantic enrichment of the current entries. However, the work done shows the fruitfulness of the approach and its outcome has contributed to the creation of a master entries dictionary.