A computer aided approach for enriching WordNet with semantic definition

WordNet is studied and applied extensively nowadays as an underlying knowledge base. The semantic information in WordNet is an important evidence for many applications. Because the synsets are defined in natural language, which is difficult for computer to understand, it is meaningful to extend it with computerreadable semantic definitions. Motivated by this objective, this paper proposed a computer aided method to give synsets semantic definitions. These semantic definitions are picked up from HowNet, an English-Chinese bilingual Ontology, in which the definitions can be easily utilized by computers and thus will make Word- Net more attractive. Experimental results show that the proposed method is capable of this enriching task.