This paper describes WordNet design and development, discussing its origins, the
objectives it initially intended to reach and the subsequent use to which it has been put, the …

WordNet has been used in information retrieval research by many researchers, but failed to
improve the performance of their retrieval system. Thereby in this paper we investigate why …

A language without a wordnet is at a severe disadvantage. If this sounds outlandish to you,
reconsider. Language technology is a signature area of computing on/for/around the …

This paper presents an approach to enhance search engines with information about word
senses available in WordNet. The approach exploits information about the conceptual …

cmp-lg/9806016 23 Jun 1998 Page 1 cmp-lg/9806016 23 Jun 1998 Using WordNet for
Building WordNets Xavier Farreres, German Rigau, Horacio Rodríguez Departament de …

The aim of the EuroWordNet-project is the development of a database with wordnets for
English, Spanish, Dutch and Italian, similar to the Princeton WordNet1. 5, which contains …

This paper describes an automatic indexing procedure that uses the “IS-A” relations
contained within WordNet and the set of nouns contained in a text to select a sense for each …

This paper describes a tool for the automatic extension and trimming of a multilingual
WordNet database for cross-lingual retrieval and multilingual ontology building in intranets …

A WordNet is a lexical database in which nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are
organized in a conceptual hierarchy, linking semantically and lexically related concepts …

This paper reports the ongoing project (since 2002) of developing a wordnet for Brazilian
Portuguese (Wordnet. Br) from scratch. In particular, it describes the process of constructing …