After a long history of compilation of our own lexical resources, EDR Japanese/English Electronic Dictionary, and discussions with major players on development of various WordNets, Japanese National Institute of Information and Communications Technology started developing the Japanese WordNet in 2006 and will publicly release the first version, which includes both the synset in Japanese and the...

The successful use of the Princeton WordNet for Text Categorization has prompted the creation of similar WordNets in other languages as well. This paper focuses on a comparative study between two WordNet based approaches for Multilingual Text Categorization. The first relates on using machine translation to access directly the princeton WordNet while the second avoids machine translation by usi...

This paper describes an attempt to develop Punjabi WordNet by using expansion approach from Hindi WordNet under Indradhanush WordNet Project. The origin, symbols, morphological and syntactic characteristics of Punjabi Language are presented in this paper. The lexical semantic relations used in Punjabi WordNet are elaborated. The need for synset categorization and the results of this categorizat...

WordNet has been used extensively as a resource for the Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) task, both as a sense inventory and a repository of semantic relationships. Recently, we investigated the possibility to use it as a resource for the Geographical Information Retrieval task, more specifically for the toponym disambiguation task, which could be considered a specialization of WSD. We found tha...

The paper presents the detection of syntactic patterns in the Croatian WordNet synset definitions. The detection was performed in order to create unambiguous and consistent synset definitions in the future development of the Croatian WordNet. The rules are implemented in form of finite-state transducers and tested on already existing version of the Croatian WordNet. Results are presented using ...

This paper describes our participation to the TREC 2005 Robust Task. A method of conceptual indexing based on WordNet is used. Both documents and queries are mapped onto WordNet. Thus concepts belonging to WordNet synsets are identified and extracted whereas those having a single sense are expanded.

Princeton WordNet (PWN) is one of the most influential resources for semantic descriptions, and is extensively used in natural language processing. Based on PWN, three Chinese wordnets have been developed: Sinica Bilingual Ontological Wordnet (BOW), Southeast University WordNet (SEW), and Taiwan University WordNet (CWN). We used SEW to sense-tag a corpus, but found some issues with coverage and...

We have empirically discovered that the space of human actions has a grammatical structure. This is a motoric space consisting of the evolution of the joint angles of the human body in movement. Furthermore, the process of assembling individual human movements into higher level descriptions resembles in a natural sense the process of speech recognition. Thus the space of human activity has its ...

We present a formal Arabic wordnet built on the basis of carefully designed ontology hereby referred to as Ontology. The provides representation concepts that terms convey, and its content was with ontological analysis in mind, benchmarked scientific advances rigorous knowledge sources much this is possible, rather than only speakers' beliefs lexicons typically are. A comprehensive evaluation c...

An analysis that defines predicates for Wordnet verb classes and links them to semantic interpretation is presented. The selectional restrictions for the thematic roles defining the predicates are WordNet ontological categories. Thematic roles are also linked to the syntactic relations that realize them. The paper illustrates the methodology by providing a detailed analysis of some major WordNe...