SPINN: SPråkteknologi och INformationssökning i Norden

Resumé

This paper describes a coordinate research project with the purpose of investigating
the possibilities of a multilingual computational lexicon covering the Scandinavian
languages. The initiative originates from the work carried out within the EU-project,
SIMPLE, in which Danmark and Sweden participated, and which resulted in lexicon
modules for 12 EU-languages including Danish and Swedish. The Danish lexicon is
being reused for creating a parallel Norwegian module (see section 2). In the final
section a proposal for linking the word meanings in these three lexicons by means of
English as a common interlingua is sketched out. The SPINN network is the forum
for cooperation among researchers in the Nordic countries on the issues concerning
the use of computational lexicons for natural language processing purposes with
specific focus on information retrieval.