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This paper discusses the design of the EuroWordNet database, in which semantic databases like WordNet1.5 for several languages are combined via a so-called inter-lingual-index. In this database, language-independent data is shared whilst language-specific properties are maintained. A special interface has been developed to compare the semantic configurations across languages and to track down differences.
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Peters, W., Vossen, P., Díez-Orzas, P. et al. Cross-linguistic Alignment of Wordnets with an Inter-Lingual-Index. Computers and the Humanities 32, 221–251 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1001134011927
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