USING WORDNET FOR BUILDING AN INTERLINGUAL DICTIONARY 1

UNL is an enterprise to support multilinguality in Internet based on a common language called Universal Networking Language. One of the components of the language is a dictionary of Universal Words (UWs). Such dictionary constitutes the link between the vocabularies of the languages involved in the project. This article describes the process of creating the common UWs dictionary within the UNL context, using as an external resource Wordnet. The process is completely automatic. Implementation details and results of the process are shown.