The Software Infrastructure for the Development and Validation of the Greek Wordnet

This paper deals with the software infrastructure designed and developed to support the construction and validation of the Greek wordnet, which is currently being developed in the framework of the BalkaNet project. We describe the language resources and the tools which aim at the extraction and validation of linguistic information for wordnet development and validation. In particular, we focus on the usage of machine readable dictionaries (MRD) and corpora while taking into account the particularities of the Greek language, which play a crucial role in the aforementioned tasks. Furthermore, we emphasize on how the technical infrastructure facilitated the development of the Greek wordnet and we give an account of the methodological principles adopted to that end. Finally, we present the current status of the Greek wordnet in terms of statistical data concerning both vocabulary coverage and links