Mapping Difficulties of Farsnet Synsets on Princeton Synsets

In this research the difficulties in the mapping of Farsnet synsets with the Princeton WordNet synsets were investigated. With regard to three kinds of difficulties for mapping of WordNets including 1. Difficulties due to meaning distinction in the source WordNet 2. Difficulties due to principles underlying the source WordNet and the target language sources. 3. Difficulties due to intrinsic differences between the source and target languages the synsets were investigated. This research tried to answer three questions: What are the difficulties in the mapping Farsnet synsets with Princeton Synsets? Which difficulties were more frequent? Was there any difference between the difficulties in the mapping of Farsnet synsets and Princeton WordNet and mapping of synsets of other WordNets? Considering the large amount of the data a sample of 1552 synsets were chosen randomly. With regard to the overlap of words between synsets, only the first member of the synset was taken into account. The cases were divided into eight types. For solving the observed difficulties some suggestions were proposed that can be used for Farsnet enrichment.