The CLaDA-BG Dictionary Creation System: Specifics and Perspectives

Abstract

The paper reports on the current status of a system for creating dictionaries within the CLaDA-BG infrastructure. The system is called CLaDA-BG-Dict. At the heart of the system lies the lexical thesaurus BTB-Wordnet around which all other language resources for Bulgarian are organized. These are various types of dictionaries (morphological, explanatory, terminological, etc.), ontologies (such as DBpedia), corpora (in-house and external). The specific features and functionalities of the system are discussed with respect to the language resourse integrity. Also, the rationale behind the construction of such a system are given together with an outline of its utility for a number of NLP tasks and for various types of users.