An Approach towards Applying and Constructing Multilingual Indo-WordNet

In the work reported here, we present three important related issues. 1. We present an effective method of construction of the Marathi WordNet (http://www.cfilt.iitb.ac.in/wordnet/webmwn/) using the HindiWordNet (http://www.cfilt.iitb.ac.in/wordnet/webhwn/), both of which are being developed at IIT Bombay. Henceforth we will refer to them as MWN and HWN respectively. 2. The Synset identity is the key to connect WordNets. 3. We present an interface to browse linked Hindi and Marathi WordNets (Bilingual WordNet) simultaneously for a given word either in Hindi or in Marathi. As an application, we present Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) of nouns in Hindi. The system has been evaluated on the Corpora provided by Central Institute of Indian Languages (http://www.ciil.org/) and the results are encouraging