Arabic WordNet: Current state and future extensions

GWC 2008: 4th Global WordNet Conference, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 387-405

  Rodríguez, Horacio ^a   Farwell, David ^a   Farreres, Javi ^a   Bertran, Manuel ^a   Alkhalifa, Musa ^b   Martí, M Antonia ^b   Black, William ^c   Elkateb, Sabri ^c   Kirk, James ^c   Pease, Adam ^d   Vossen, Piek ^e   Fellbaum, Christiane ^f  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d Articulate Software   (United States)

^e Irion Technologies   (Netherlands)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabic NLP; Arabic WordNet; Ontology; Semi automatic WordNet extension

Indexed keywords

USER INTERFACES;

ARABIC NLP; ARABIC WORDNET; CURRENT STATUS; MORPHOLOGICAL RULES; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; WORDNET;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 84904605800     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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