Automatic building of Wordnets

In what follows we will present a two-phase methodology for automatically building a wordnet (that we call target wordnet) strictly aligned with an already available wordnet (source wordnet). In the first phase the synsets for the target language are automatically generated and mapped onto the source language synsets using a series of heuristics. In the second phase the salient relations that can be automatically imported are identified and the procedure for their import is explained. The assumptions behind such methodology will be stated, the heuristics employed will be presented and their success evaluated against a case study (automatically building a Romanian wordnet using PWN).