Compiling a German Wordnet from other Resources

Melanie Siegel, Francis Bond

Abstract:

The Princeton WordNet for the English
language has been used worldwide in NLP
projects for many years. With the OMW
initiative, wordnets for different languages
of the world are being linked via identifiers. The parallel development and linking allows new multilingual application
perspectives. The development of a wordnet for the German language is also in
this context. To save development time,
existing resources were combined and recompiled. The result was then evaluated
and improved. In a relatively short time
a resource was created that can be used
in projects and continuously improved and
extended.