Another closely related work is our own previously proposed method for leveraging on resources available for English to construct resources for a second language<cite> (Mihalcea et al., 2007)</cite> . That method assumed the availability of a bridge between languages, such as a bilingual lexicon or a parallel corpus. Instead, in the method proposed here, we rely exclusively on language-specific resources, and do not make use of any such bilingual resources which may not always be available.