Swesaurus – ett svenskt ordnät med fria tyglar

Abstract

Swesaurus is a free Swedish wordnet currently under construction in
Språkbanken, University of Gothenburg. Swesaurus is constructed
by reusing information about lexical-semantic relations in a number
of pre-existing freely available lexical resources: SALDO, SDB,
Synlex and Swedish Wiktionary. In this article we describe how this
existing lexical-semantic information is reused and enriched by
utilizing the connections among the lexical resources. We focus in
particular on our experiments with turning the graded synonymy
relations of Synlex into fuzzy synsets in Swesaurus. The introduction
of fuzziness into a wordnet raises many intricate methodological
and theoretical questions, which are discussed and illustrated in the
article.