Automatic Construction of the Knowledge Base of an Onomasiological Dictionary

For almost 14 years in the Language Engineering Group we have worked on a wide variety of Natural Language Processing (NLP) problems, being one of the earliest in the creation and operation of onomasiological dictionaries. During that time we have focused on search engine dictionary improvement, but recently our aim has been a development methodology for creating specialized onomasiological dictionaries in a semi-automatic way. To automate the creation of onomasiological dictionaries necessarily implies the automatic execution of used processes to populate the dictionaries knowledge base. Due to the nature of these dictionaries, the definitions that must be included in the knowledge base are both normative and colloquial. In this paper we present a proposal for semi-automatically populating the knowledge base of these dictionaries.