10. A non-transitory computer readable medium having program instructions for mapping word senses across lexical resources, comprising: program instructions for selecting a target term from a first lexical resource; program instructions for identifying a restricted range of possible matches to the target term from a second lexical resource; program instructions for calculating a semantic distance between one of the possible matches to the target term; program instructions for ranking the possible matches to the target term according to relevance; and program instructions for associating the target term from the first lexical resource with one of the possible matches having a lowest semantic distance from the target term.
17. The computer readable medium of claim 10 , wherein the program instructions for ranking the possible matches to the target term according to relevance includes, program instructions for assigning a weight to each of the possible matches based upon a technique used to associate the target term and respective possible matches.