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Despite their widespread use in Natural Language Processing applications, lexical databases and wordnets in particular do not yet contribute satisfactorily to the difficult problem of automatic word sense discrimination. Having built a number of lexical databases ourselves, we are keenly aware of still unresolved fundamental theoretical issues. In this paper we examine some of these questions and suggests preliminary answers concerning the nature of lexical elements and the conceptual-semantic and lexical relations that interconnect them. Our perspective is multilingual, and our goal is to formulate a proposal for a “Global Wordnet Grid” that will meet the challenge of mapping the lexicons of many languages in interesting and useful ways.
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Fellbaum, C., Vossen, P. (2007). Connecting the Universal to the Specific: Towards the Global Grid. In: Ishida, T., Fussell, S.R., Vossen, P.T.J.M. (eds) Intercultural Collaboration. IWIC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4568. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74000-1_1
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