Onto.PT: Automatic Construction of a Lexical Ontology for Portuguese

Abstract

This ongoing research presents an alternative to the man- ual creation of lexical resources and proposes an approach towards the automatic construction of a lexical ontology for Portuguese. Tex- tual sources are exploited in order to obtain a lexical network based on terms and, after clustering and mapping, a wordnet-like lexical on- tology is created. At the end of the paper, current results are shown.