In particular, the third main task of the project consist of the construction of a multilingual lexical knowledge for Catalan, Euskera and Spanish. The aim of the CREL is to propose and develop research projects on computational linguistics. In particular, our group has proposed the enrichment of the Catalan WordNet. WordNet WordNet is an on-line lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept.
Different relationships link the synonym sets.
The Acquilex projects were funded by the European Commission under the Basic Research Initiative. The goal of the first project was to explore the utility of constructing a multilingual lexical knowledge base from machine-readable versions of conventional dictionaries. The second project extended this goal by exploring the utility of machine readable textual corpora as a source of lexical information not coded in conventional dictionaries, and by adding dictionary publishing partners to exploit the lexical database and corpus extraction software developed by the projects for conventional lexicography.