An alternative approach to using word embeddings to extend an existing WordNet has been described by Al tarouti and Kalita (2016), who in fact use word embeddings to extend an automatically-constructed Arabic WordNet built using the machine translation / bilingual dictionary method described by Lam et al.
an extension of this work specifically aimed at lesser-resourced languages was also described, in which a Persian WordNet is constructed by finding the English translations of Persian words in small corpora using a bilingual dictionary.