Contact:
Prof. Dr Piek T.J.M. Vossen
Irion Technologies, Delft, The Netherlands
Piek.Vossen@irion.nl or
www.vossen.info
Dr Christiane Fellbaum
Princeton University, USA
Fellbaum@clarity.Princeton.edu
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The Global WordNet Association is a free,
public and non-commercial organization that provides a platform for discussing,
sharing and connecting wordnets for all languages in the world. The aims of the
association are:
- To
establish distribution facilities for the dissemination of the Association
and Association publications and information materials:
- To promote cooperation and information exchange
among related professional and technical societies that build or use
wordnets.
- To provide information on wordnets to the
general public.
- To
promote the standardization of the specification of wordnets for all
languages in the world, including:
- the standardization of the Inter-Lingual-Index
for inter-linking the wordnets of different languages, as a universal
index of meaning
- the development of a common representation for
wordnet data
- To
promote the development of sense-tagged corpora in all the linked
languages.
- To
promote sharing and transferring of data, software and specifications
across wordnet builders for different languages
- To
promote the development of guidelines and methodologies for building
wordnets in new languages
- To
promote the development of explicit criteria and definitions for verifying
the relations in any language
- To
promote the development of consistency checking, comparison and evaluation
modules
- To
promote research into the psychological adequacy of models of the mental
lexicon
The Global WordNet Association (GWA) builds
on the results of Princeton
WordNet and EuroWordNet.
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