Semi-automatic building of wordnet for Bangla

Abstract

This paper presents a method for creating a Bangla wordnet, semi-automatically from other source wordnets and Bilingual Dictionaries. The method requires an extensive involvement of Bangla Linguists to make the effort effective, and should be helpful when the computational resources at hand for a language like Bangla are very limited. It is a bootstrapping method where the cycle starts with some portion of the target WordNet be created automatically, then linguists edit the mistakes on that portion and then that corrected information is also used to generate next set of target entries. Our success will be evaluated against an (automatically building a Bangla WordNet using Princeton WordNet and a small test purpose bilingual dictionary).