Free Construction of a Free SwedishDictionary of Synonyms

• Building a large dictionary of synonymsfor a language is a very tedioustask. Hence there exist veryfew synonym dictionaries for mostlanguages, and those that exist aregenerally not freely available due tothe amount of work that have beenput into them.The Lexin on-line dictionary1 is avery popular web-site for translationsof Swedish words to about tendifferent languages. By letting userson this site grade automatically generatedpossible synonym pairs a freedictionary of Swedish synonyms hasbeen created. The lexicon reflectsthe users intuitive definition of synonymityand the amount of work putinto the project is only as much asthe participants want to.

Ämnesord

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Synonyms

dictionary construction

multi-user collaboration

random indexing.

Informatics, computer and systems science

Informatik, data- och systemvetenskap

Publikations- och innehållstyp

ref (ämneskategori)

kon (ämneskategori)