Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

The Romanian wordnet in a nutshell

  • Brief Report
  • Published:
Language Resources and Evaluation Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The project on the Romanian wordnet has been under continuous development for more than 10 years now. It has been in constant use in many projects and applications which determined, to a large extent, the content and coverage of various lexical domains. The article presents the most recent developments of the Romanian wordnet and offers quantitative data for its current version.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Notes

  1. PWN 3.0 includes 14 noun–verb relations (morpho-semantic links) such as AGENT, INSTRUMENT, LOCATION, RESULT, etc.

  2. http://nlp.lsi.upc.edu/web/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=59.

  3. http://nlptools.racai.ro/nlptools/index.php?page=pwn3to2.

  4. http://nlptools.racai.ro/nlptools/index.php?page=contradictionsPwn2SMzip and respectively http://nlptools.racai.ro/nlptools/index.php?page=contradictionsPwn3SMzip.

  5. http://globalwordnet.org.

  6. http://nlp.racai.ro/WnBrowser/.

  7. http://ws.racai.ro:9191/.

References

  • Bentivogli, L., Forner, P., Magnini, B., & Pianta, E. (2004). Revising WordNet domains hierarchy: Semantics, coverage, and balancing. Proceedings of COLING 2004 Workshop on “Multilingual Linguistic Resources” (pp. 101–108).

  • Fellbaum, C. (Ed.). (1998). WordNet: An electronic lexical database. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fellbaum, C., & Vossen, P. (2012). Challenges for a multilingual wordnet. Language resources and evaluation, published online: 10 May 2012.

  • Miller, G. A. (1995). WordNet: A lexical database for English. Communications of the ACM, 38, 39–41.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Miller, G. A., Beckwith, R., Fellbaum, C., Gross, D., & Miller, K. (1990). Introduction to WordNet: An on-line lexical database. International Journal of Lexicography, 3(4), 235–244.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Niles, I., & Pease, A. (2001). Towards a standard upper ontology. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (pp. 2–9).

  • Stamou, S., Oflazer, K., Pala, K., Christoudoulakis, D., Cristea, D., Tufiş, D., Koeva, S., Totkov, G., Dutoit, D., & Grigoriadou, M. (2002). BALKANET A Multilingual Semantic Network for the Balkan Languages. Proceedings of the International Wordnet Conference (pp. 12–24).

  • Tufiş, D., & Barbu, E. (2004). A methodology and associated tools for building interlingual wordnets. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004) (pp. 1068–1070).

  • Tufis, D., Cristea, D., & Stamou, S. (2004). BalkaNet: Aims, Methods, Results and Perspectives. In Tufis, D. (Ed.) Special Issue on BalkaNet of the Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology, vol. 7, no. 1–2 (pp. 9–43).

  • Vossen, P. (Ed.). (1998). A multilingual database with lexical semantic networks. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgments

The new work reported here was supported by the Romanian Academy and by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme under METANET4U Grant Agreement no. 270893.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Romanian Academy Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence “M. Drăgănescu”, Bucharest, Romania

    Dan Tufiş, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Dan Ştefănescu & Radu Ion

Authors
  1. Dan Tufiş
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Verginica Barbu Mititelu
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Dan Ştefănescu
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Radu Ion
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Dan Tufiş.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Tufiş, D., Mititelu, V.B., Ştefănescu, D. et al. The Romanian wordnet in a nutshell. Lang Resources & Evaluation 47, 1305–1314 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-013-9230-7

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-013-9230-7

Keywords

Search

Navigation