About the project

The project supporting Latvian WordNet was "Advancing Latvian computational lexical resources for natural language understanding and generation" (LZP-2022/1-0443) which started 2023 and ended 2026, funded by the Latvian Council of Science.

The goal of the project was to develop Latvian lexical resources and software tools necessary for language understanding and generation. It was planned to expand the Latvian WordNet with semi-automatic methods to a wide coverage resource, to create a semantic system of derivatives and multi-word entities in the largest open explanatory dictionary of the Latvian language Tezaurs.lv, and to create a computable resource in the multilingual Grammatical Framework. In the linguistic aspect, the project included fundamental research on the semantics of derivations and the structure and semantics of multi-word expressions, while in the computational linguistic aspect, the understanding and generation of natural language was developed using the lexical resources created during the project.