In this paper we proceed with a systematic gathering of design requirements for wordnet browsers that permit to consult the content of wordnets. This is undertaken together with a review of the functionalities of existing browsers. On the basis of this analysis, we present a new wordnet browser we developed that meets these requirements and thus complies with the most ample range of design features. This is an open source browser that is freely distributed and can be reused by anyone interested in doing research on or just using wordnets. We also introduce the notion of a pluricentric global wordnet, for whose undertaking this new advanced browser appears as an important instrument and motivation. This is a promising operative conception for a bootstrapped yet effective process towards the ultimate global wordnet, where all individual wordnets from all languages are meant to eventually converge together, in spite of the plurality of their formats, licenses, depth, etc. that is intrinsic to an inherently plural endeavor undertaken by multiple actors under multiple constraints across the world.
@InProceedings{BRANCO18.277, author = {António Branco and Ruben Branco and Chakaveh Saedi and João Silva}, title = "{Browsing and Supporting Pluricentric Global Wordnet, or just your Wordnet of Interest}", booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {May 7-12, 2018}, address = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair) and Khalid Choukri and Christopher Cieri and Thierry Declerck and Sara Goggi and Koiti Hasida and Hitoshi Isahara and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Hélène Mazo and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis and Takenobu Tokunaga}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {979-10-95546-00-9}, language = {english} }
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