<s>
The	O
Bulgarian	O
Sense-annotated	O
Corpus	O
(	O
BulSemCor	B-General_Concept
)	O
(	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
structured	O
corpus	O
of	O
Bulgarian	O
texts	O
in	O
which	O
each	O
lexical	O
item	O
is	O
assigned	O
a	O
sense	O
tag	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
BulSemCor	B-General_Concept
was	O
created	O
by	O
the	O
Department	O
of	O
Computational	O
Linguistics	O
at	O
the	O
Institute	O
for	O
Bulgarian	O
Language	O
of	O
the	O
Bulgarian	O
Academy	O
of	O
Sciences	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
BulSemCor	B-General_Concept
was	O
created	O
as	O
part	O
of	O
a	O
nationally	O
funded	O
project	O
titled	O
"	O
BulNet	B-Application
–	O
A	O
lexico-semantic	O
network	O
for	O
the	O
Bulgarian	O
Language	O
"	O
(	O
2005	O
–	O
2010	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
An	O
important	O
feature	O
of	O
BulSemCor	B-General_Concept
is	O
that	O
the	O
samples	O
are	O
selected	O
using	O
heuristics	O
that	O
provide	O
optimal	O
coverage	O
of	O
ambiguous	O
lexis	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
BulSemCor	B-General_Concept
is	O
manually	O
sense-annotated	O
according	O
to	O
the	O
Bulgarian	B-Application
WordNet	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
semantic	O
annotation	O
consists	O
in	O
associating	O
each	O
lexical	O
item	O
in	O
the	O
corpus	O
with	O
exactly	O
one	O
synonym	B-General_Concept
set	I-General_Concept
(	O
synset	B-General_Concept
)	O
in	O
the	O
Bulgarian	B-Application
WordNet	I-Application
that	O
best	O
describes	O
its	O
sense	O
in	O
the	O
particular	O
context	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
selection	O
of	O
the	O
best	O
match	O
among	O
the	O
suggested	O
candidates	O
is	O
based	O
on	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
procedures	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
the	O
other	O
synset	B-General_Concept
members	O
,	O
the	O
synset	B-General_Concept
gloss	O
(	O
explanatory	O
definition	O
)	O
and	O
the	O
position	O
of	O
a	O
given	O
candidate	O
in	O
the	O
WordNet	O
structure	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
All	O
words	O
in	O
BulSemCor	B-General_Concept
are	O
assigned	O
a	O
sense	O
,	O
while	O
according	O
to	O
established	O
practice	O
only	O
simple	O
content	O
words	O
or	O
content	O
word	O
classes	O
(	O
typically	O
nouns	O
and	O
verbs	O
)	O
are	O
annotated	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
this	O
respect	O
,	O
BulSemCor	B-General_Concept
's	O
annotation	O
is	O
more	O
exhaustive	O
and	O
hence	O
provides	O
greater	O
opportunities	O
for	O
linguistic	O
observations	O
and	O
non-linear	O
programming	O
(	O
NLP	B-Language
)	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Annotated	O
items	O
inherit	O
the	O
linguistic	O
information	O
associated	O
with	O
the	O
corresponding	O
synset	B-General_Concept
,	O
which	O
along	O
with	O
morphological	O
and	O
semantic	O
tags	O
may	O
include	O
annotation	O
on	O
one	O
or	O
more	O
of	O
the	O
following	O
additional	O
levels	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
Stylistic/register	O
,	O
grammatical	O
and	O
other	O
information	O
about	O
synsets	B-General_Concept
or	O
individual	O
synset	B-General_Concept
members	O
;	O
</s>
