A Wordnet from the Ground Up

A language without a wordnet is at a severe disadvantage. We report on the initial stages of along-term project to create a similar resource for Polish. We have envisaged a book for manyaudiences. The most immediate “clientele” are people who work with wordnets and on wordnets.We have attempted to make our experience with one language approachable to people whoneed not know anything about that language. Computing professionals who work with Polish textsmay find the technical discussion interesting. Linguists who use computers in their study may beencouraged to acquire yet another element of their research workbench. Researchers whospecialise in statistical method of semantic analysis of texts may consider our comprehensiveoverview of such methods useful.There was no Polish wordnet when our work began several years ago. We chose to construct theresource from the ground up rather than translate the English WordNet first and then labouriouslyadapt it to the significantly different realities of the Polish language.http://plwordnet.pwr.wroc.pl/main/?lang=enWydawnictwa Politechniki Wrocławskiejsą do nabycia w księgarni „Tech”plac Grunwaldzki 13, 50-377 Wrocławbudynek D-1 PWr., tel. 071 320 29 35Prowadzimy sprzedaż wysyłkowąISBN 978-83-7493-476-3