The architecture of a lexical database in which multilingual semantic networks would be stored requires the incorporation of e xible mechanisms and services, which would enable the efcient navigation within and across lexical data. We report on WordNet Management System (WMS), a system that functions as the interconnection and communication link between a user and a number of interlinked WordNets. Semantic information is being accessed through a distributed network of servers, forming a large-scale multilingual semantic network.