Towards Building a WordNet for Persian Adjectives

The growing importance of electronic tools for compiling, storing, and processing the linguistic data made us build a WordNet for Persian adjectives. This paper starts with a brief introduction on the history and general concepts of WordNet. To arrive at a semantic classification of Persian adjectives, we categorized Persian adjectives in 15 main classes and over 70 minor groups. Three Persian dictionaries and an electronic corpus have been employed for extracting the entries and identifying their semantic fields. Since WordNet is a kind of database, we have introduced some key notions and methodology of databases architecture.