::--WordNet --::

Name:: Bangla Wordnet

Summary::

The attempt of this project is to design and development of WordNet for Bangla language.

Details::

WordNet, is a series of manually compiled electronic dictionaries, not restricted to any specific domain and covers all parts-of-speech. The origin of WordNet is to build a lexical-conceptual model and database, consisting of both lexical units and the relations between such units, structured into a relational semantic network. Significant amount of work involved to do this project such as corpus collection, tagging, lexicon development etc.

Some of the applications in Wordnet are information extraction and retrieval, document structuring and categorization and language teaching. It is also an ideal tool for disambiguation of meaning and semantic tagging.

Team::

• Farhana Faruqe [email]
• Kamrul Hayder [email]
• Mumit Khan

Past Team:

• Fahim Tawfique Chowdhury [email] [website]

Status:: Ongoing

Timeline:: 2007 - 2009