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Balkanet aims at combining effectively Balkan lexicography and modern computation. The most ambitious feature of Balkanet is its attempt to represent semantic relations and organize lexical information from Balkan languages in terms of word meanings. Its main objective is the development of six monolingual WordNets and their combination in a common infrastructure, namely the WordNet Management System (WMS). Moreover, Balkanet aims not only at combining Balkan word forms in an on line dictionary but at a further expansion of EuroWordNet by tracing and exploring the relationships among Romance and Balkan languages. Finally, it aims at promoting the study of the less studied Balkan languages by creating a large-scale linguistic resource, which would be useful in various NLP applications, ranging from information retrieval to machine translation and language teaching.