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The paper entitled "Worth its Weight in Gold or Yet Another Resource -- A Comparative Study of Wiktionary, OpenThesaurus and GermaNet" by Christian M. Meyer and Iryna Gurevych has been accepted at CICLing 2010.

In this paper, we analyze the topology and the content of a range of lexical semantic resources for the German language constructed either in a controlled (GermaNet), semi-controlled (OpenThesaurus), or collaborative, i.e. community-based, manner (Wiktionary). For the first time, the comparison of the corresponding resources is performed at the word sense level. We find that the resources share similar topological properties although they encode different contents. Particularly, we identify differences in the number of polysemous terms and the predominant type of encoded semantic relations.