IndoWordNet Dictionary: An Online Multilingual Dictionary using IndoWordNet

摘要

India is a country with diverse culture, language and varied heritage. Due to this, it is very rich in languages and their dialects. Being a multilingual society, a dictionary in multiple languages becomes its need and one of the major resources to support a language. There are dictionaries for many Indian languages, but very few are available in multiple languages. WordNet is one of the most prominent lexical resources in the field of Natural Language Processing. IndoWordNet is an integrated multilingual WordNet for Indian languages. These WordNet resources are used by researchers to experiment and resolve the issues in multilinguality through computation. However, there are few cases where WordNet is used by the non-researchers or general public. This paper focuses on providing an online interface - IndoWordNet Dictionary to non-researchers as well as researchers. It is developed to render multilingual WordNet information of 19 Indian languages in a dictionary format. The WordNet information is rendered in multiple views such as: sense based, thesaurus based, word usage based and language based. English WordNet information is also rendered using this interface. The IndoWordNet dictionary will help users to know meanings of a word in multiple Indian languages.