BWN - A Software Platform for Developing Bengali WordNet

Abstract

Advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications are increasingly dependent on the availability of linguistic resources, ranging from digital lexica to rich tagged and annotated corpora. While these resources are readily available for digitally advanced languages such as English, these have yet to be developed for widely spoken but digitally immature languages such as Bengali. WordNet is a linguistic resource that can be used in, and for, a variety of applications from a digital dictionary to an automatic machine translator. To create a WordNet for a new language however is a significant challenge, not the least of which is the availability of the lexical data, followed by the software framework to build and manage the data. In this paper, we present BWN, a software framework to build and maintain a Bengali WordNet. We discuss in detail the design and implementation of BWN, concluding with a discussion of how it may be used in future to develop WordNets for other languages as well.

XBLQPS: An Extended Bengali Language Query Processing System for e-Healthcare Domain

“…Bengali WordNet databases are useful and a few good implementations have been done by Pushpak Bhattacharyya [2] and Farhana Farque [3]. The proposed work is influenced from Pushpak Bhattacharyya [2], Farhana Farque [3] and A. Haque [22].…”

“…The data repository of XBLQPS is made up of a modified Bengali WordNet database and a health information database. The modified Bengali WordNet database has been developed with help of Bengali WordNet database as referred in [3].…”

“…The table named "table_semantic", "table_hospital", "table_department" and "table_doctor" have been taken from our research article referred in [6]. The proposed system thus has modified the original WordNet database of [3] and shall now be termed as "Modified Bengali WordNet DB". Each word in the Modified Bengali WordNet DB contains its parts of speech definition introduced manually as according to the largest probability of its use.…”

“…The lexical matrix has been used to construct the relational semantics as discussed in [2]. In the article [3], The BWN is a WordNet database for the Bengali language. It consists of lexical source files, a grinder, a WordNet database, and an interface.…”

“…It consists of lexical source files, a grinder, a WordNet database, and an interface. Using the WNDB interface, users can interact with the BWN documents in various ways as explained in [3]. The African Wordnet Project aims to develop aligned wordnets for African languages spoken in South Africa.…”