BalkaNet is a European project which aims at the development of monolingual wordnets for five languages in the Balkans area (Bulgarian, Greek, Romanian Serbia, and Turkish) and at improvement of the Czech wordnet developed in the EuroWordNet project. The wordnets are aligned to the Princeton Wordnet, according to the principles established by the EuroWordNet consortium. One of the main concerns of this project is the interlingual validation of the wordnets alignment. To this end, we have developed a WSD system based on parallel corpora which exploits the common intuition according to which words that are reciprocal translations in a parallel texts should have the same (or closely related) interlingual meanings. With wordnets under construct...
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