SPINN: SPråkteknologi och INformationssökning i Norden

This paper describes a coordinate research project with the purpose of investigatingthe possibilities of a multilingual computational lexicon covering the Scandinavianlanguages. The initiative originates from the work carried out within the EU-project,SIMPLE, in which Danmark and Sweden participated, and which resulted in lexiconmodules for 12 EU-languages including Danish and Swedish. The Danish lexicon isbeing reused for creating a parallel Norwegian module (see section 2). In the finalsection a proposal for linking the word meanings in these three lexicons by means ofEnglish as a common interlingua is sketched out. The SPINN network is the forumfor cooperation among researchers in the Nordic countries on the issues concerningthe use of computational lexicons for natural language processing purposes withspecific focus on information retrieval