A first attempt to develop a lexical resource for Dogri language: Dogri WordNet using Hindi WordNet

In this paper an attempt is made to study and analyze the prototype model for developing a WordNet for Dogri language, and describes its specific characteristics and properties to develop WordNet. In terms of morphological and syntactic structure the characteristics of the Dogri language are discussed in this paper. As Dogri is written in the same script as Hindi (Devanagri) and there are minor variations in Hindi-Dogri words structure so we can follow the approaches used by Hindi Word Net to great extent. After the completion of Dogri Wordnet more extensive study will be undertaken for the development of advanced NLP tools like Spell checker, Parser, Stemmer, IR system for Dogri language.