Abstract
Konkani is the official language of the state of Goa in India. The Konkani WordNet development activity was possible due to the funding support received from the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), New Delhi, and the technical support received from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai. The Konkani WordNet has been developed as part of the Indradhanush WordNet Consortium Project which was funded by DeitY, New Delhi, for developing WordNets of seven Indian languages. In this chapter, we present the journey of the Konkani WordNet development process and its impact on the research activity in Natural Language Processing (NLP) at Goa University. We have also briefly discussed the tools and utilities developed for NLP during the Konkani WordNet creation process.
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Ancestral Goa is a museum-like landscape area, in South Goa, wherein collection of ancestral instruments/articles is preserved and a full size human folk are depicted doing their old time village routines. This is also known as Big Foot in Goa.
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The authors wish to express their sincere gratitude to Dr. Chandralekha D’Souza, Shri Damodar Ghanekar, Shri Sushant Naik, and Ms. Kapila Dessai for their invaluable inputs during identification and verification of KLSS. We also wish to express our gratitude to the entire NLP team of Goa University and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) for providing the tools and assisting in the process of Konkani WordNet Creation. We thank Goa University for providing infrastructure for this project. We are grateful to the Department of Electronics and Information TechnologY (DeitY), New Delhi, for funding the Indradhanush WordNet Project, without their financial support this work would not have been possible.
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Desai, S.N., Walawalikar, S.W., Karmali, R.N., Pawar, J.D. (2017). Insights on the Konkani WordNet Development Process. In: Dash, N., Bhattacharyya, P., Pawar, J. (eds) The WordNet in Indian Languages. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1909-8_6
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