Connecting Multilingual Wordnets: Strategies for Improving ILI Classification in OdeNet

Melanie Siegel

Abstract:

The Open Multilingual Wordnet (OMW) is an open source project that was launched with the goal to make it easy to use wordnets in multiple languages without having to pay expensive proprietary licensing costs. As OMW evolved, the interlingual indicator (ILI)1 was used to allow semantically equivalent synsets in different languages to be linked to each other. OdeNet is the German language wordnet which forms
part of the OMW project. This paper analyses the shortcomings of the initial ILI classification in OdeNet and the consequent methods used to
improve this classification.