BalkaNet is an EC funded project (IST-2000-29388) that started in September 2001 and will
end in August 2004. It aims at develo** [109] aligned wordnets for the following Balkan …

Lexical-semantic resources, including thesauri and WORDNET, have been successfully
incorporated into a wide range of applications in Natural Language Processing. However …

We explore the semantic similarity between base noun phrases in clusters determined by a
comprehensive set of semantic relations. The attributes that characterize modi ers and …

The construction of a concept map consists of enumerating a list of concepts and–a more
difficult task–determining the linking phrases that should connect the concepts to form …

Sememes are minimum semantic units of concepts in human languages, such that each
word sense is composed of one or multiple sememes. Words are usually manually …

Every organization uses computer networks (consisting of networks of networks) for
resource sharing (ie printer, files, etc.) and communication. Computer networks today are …

Bilingual machine-readable dictionaries are knowledge resources useful in many automatic
tasks. However, compared to monolingual computational lexicons like WordNet, bilingual …

Computerized analysis of a concept map (CM) syntactic and semantic characteristics can
become a complex task, whose results can be doubtful if the map contains either graphical …

Thesauri and similarly organised resources attract increasing interest of Natural Language
Processing researchers. Thesauri age fast, so there is a constant need to update their …

Natural language understanding can be used to improve the usability of intelligent
Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools. For a software designer it can be …