Finn WordNet - WordNet på finska via översättning

• DOI: 10.7146/ln.v0i17.18627
• Publication Date: 2025-03-05T11:01:38Z
• Authors: Krister Lindén; Lauri Carlson

FinnWordNet is a WordNet for Finnish that conforms to the frameworkgiven in Fellbaum (1998) and Vossen (1998). FinnWord-Net1 is open source and currently contains 117,000 synsets. A classicWordNet consists of synsets, or sets of partial synonyms whoseshared meaning is described and exemplified by a gloss, a commonpart of speech and a hyperonym. Synsets in a WordNet are arrangedin hierarchical partial orderings according to semantic relationslike hyponymy/hyperonymy. Together the gloss, part of speech andhyperonym fix the meaning of a word and constrain the possibletranslations of a word in a given synset. The Finnish group hasopted for translating Princeton WordNet 3.0 synsets wholesale intoFinnish by professional translators, because the translation processcan be controlled with regard to quality, coverage, cost and speed oftranslation. The project was financed by FIN-CLARIN at the Universityof Helsinki. According to our preliminary evaluation, thetranslation process was diligent and the quality is on a par with theoriginal Princeton WordNet.