A Wordnet from the Ground Up

6 Prefaceheartfelt thanks go to all those people 1 . Maria Głąbska was a particularly patient,thoughtful and diligent user of our software tools. A very special thank-you to our cogranteeMagdalena Zawisławska for her numerous contributions to the Polish wordnet,which she helped shape and jump-start. We are also very grateful to all those whooffered generous advice and made their language tools and resources freely availableto the plWordNet project 2 .A big special thank-you to Adam Radziszewski, who designed a handsome coverfor our book.The work which we present in the book has been financed by the Polish Ministry ofEducation and Science, project No. 3 T11C 018 29, and it has enjoyed the ungrudgingsupport of the Wrocław University of Technology.1 Joanna Bilińska, Grzegorz Godlewski, Łukasz Jastrzębski, Paweł Koczan, Roman Kurc, MichałMarcińczuk, Dorota Lewandowska, Adam Radziszewski, Urszula Rezler, Anna Romańska, Ewa Rudnicka,Michał Stanek, Joanna Stankiewicz, Piotr Stawiński, Tomasz Stępień, Jakub Wilk, Beata Wójtowicz2 Aleksander Buczyński, Łukasz Dębowski, Filip Graliński, Elżbieta Hajnicz, Krzysztof Jassem, KlaudiaKunze, Lothar Lemnitzer, Karel Pala, Tadeusz Piotrowski, Jakub Piskorski, Adam Przepiórkowski,Zygmunt Saloni, Dawid Weiss, Marcin Woliński