Coping with Lexical Gaps when Building Aligned Multilingual Wordnets

In this paper we present a methodology that automatically classifies the translation equivalents of a machine readable bilingual dictionary in three sets: lexical units, lexical gaps and translation equivalents that need to be manually classified as lexical units or lexical gap. This preventive classification minimizes the manual work necessary to cope with lexical gaps in the construction of aligned multilingual wordnets