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Introduction to EuroWordNet

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This paper gives a global introduction to the aims and objectives of the EuroWordNet project, and it provides a general framework for the other papers in this volume. EuroWordNet is an EC project that develops a multilingual database with wordnets in several European languages, structured along the same lines as the Princeton WordNet. Each wordnet represents an autonomous structure of language-specific lexicalizations, which are interconnected via an Inter-Lingual-Index. The wordnets are built at different sites from existing resources, starting from a shared level of basic concepts and extended top-down. The results will be publicly available and will be tested in cross-language information retrieval applications.

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  1. Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Spuistraat 134, 1012 VB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Piek Vossen

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Vossen, P. Introduction to EuroWordNet. Computers and the Humanities 32, 73–89 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1001175424222

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