Boot-strapping a WordNet using multiple existing WordNets

• Main Authors: Bond, Francis, Isahara, Hitoshi., Kanzaki, Kyoko., Uchimoto, Kiyotaka.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Language::Japanese
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/92170; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6431
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper we describe the construction of an illustrated Japanese Wordnet. We bootstrap the Wordnet using existing multiple existing wordnets in order to deal with the ambiguity inherent in translation. We illustrate it with pictures from the Open Clip Art Library.