![]() ![]() It is useful for many applications of Natural Language Processing. Malayalam wordNet is an online lexical database. Malayalam wordNet is a component of Dravidian wordNet which in turn is the component of IndowordNet. On similar line, IndowordNet is being built for Indian languages. The main objective of EuroWordNet is to develop an extensive and high quality of multilingual database with WordNets for several languages (mainly European Languages such as French, German, Czech, Italian, etc.) in a cost-effective manner. Hindi WordNet has been built based on Princeton English WordNet which is a component of EuroWordNet. The main objective of the project is to build WordNets for Dravidian languages by making use of the already built Hindi WordNet under the project scheme IndowordNet. Work on Malayalam WordNet was initiated in Amrita Vishvavidya Peetam, Coimbatore in December, 2011 as a part of the project entitled “Development of Dravidian WordNet: An Integrated WordNet for Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam”, funded by Department of Information Technology, MCIT, Govt. We have the plan to mend it into a generic one so that all the Dravidian languages can be easily accommodated into it. The present visual onto-thesaurus is based on the Indian and Dravidian conceptualization and the process of building one is comparatively very simple. A merger approach of building separate wordNets and collapsing them into one would have been a preferable approach. Apart from this the extension approach of building Tamil wordNet using Hindi wordNet cannot fulfill Dravidian conceptualization. Moreover building a wordNet based on Hindi wordNet which in turn is built on English wordNet will take many years to complete and it would miss the conceptualization depicted in Indian tradition. In the western oriented WordNet ontology there is no scope for the visualization of concepts depicted in nikhandus. Say for examples, nikhandus have classifications such a six types of tastes, nine types of planets (gragams), 7 types of mandalams (a type of division), 15 tidis (15 phases of moon), etc. This has not taken into consideration the Indian conceptualization of the world depicted in the nikhandu tradition. The Dravidian wordNets (in which Tamil wordNet is one of the four components) built under the IndoWordNet project depended on an ontology developed by Western conceptualization of the world found in English). It is a lexical resource which amalgamates all sorts of information available in a dictionary, thesaurus and wordNet. It depicts our travel from Tamil thesaurus to Tamil word net. It went through several stages before being culminated into Tamil visual onto-thesaurus. Tamil Visual Onto-thesaurus (TVOT or simply VOT) is an outcome of an extensive research activity that went on in the field of lexical semantics of Tamil. ![]()
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