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WordNet

WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words that links words into semantic relations including synonyms, hyponyms, and meronyms. The synonyms are grouped into synsets with short definitions and usage examples. It can thus be seen as a combination and extension of a dictionary and thesaurus. Its primary use is in automatic text…

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Available in
More than 200 languages
Developer
Princeton University
Licence
BSD-like
Operating system
Unix, Linux, Solaris, Windows
Original author
George Armitage Miller
Release
1985

Topics to explore

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Overview

History and team members

Database contents

Knowledge structure

Psycholinguistic aspects

As a lexical ontology

Limitations

Applications

Interfaces

Related projects and extensions

Distributions

Advanced semantic analysis

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Map overview Semantic statistics

WordNet

Nodes149
Edges148
Triples263
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.013423
Components1

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WordNet

Top relations

related to Other languages · 109
WordNet → Adam Mickiewicz University, African, Arabic, Arabic Ontology, Arabic WordNet, Assamese, Bahasa, BalkaNet, Bangla, Basque, Bodo, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Bulgarian Academy, Bulgarian Language, BulNet, Catalan, CC BY-NC-ND, CC-BY-SA, Chinese
related to Linked data · 28
WordNet → Android, BabelNet, BioWordnet, ColorDict, Currently, Dallas, DBpedia, DOLCE, GPL, ImageNet, It, OntoWordNet, OpenCyc, SentiWordNet, SUMO, Texas, The, The GCIDE, The SUMO, This
related to history · 21
WordNet → Advanced Research, Antonio Zampolli Prize, Christiane Fellbaum, Cognitive Science Laboratory, DARPA, Development Activity, Disruptive Technology Office, English, George Armitage Miller, George Miller, It, National Science Foundation, Naval Research, Office, Piek Th, Princeton University, REFLEX, The, The Global WordNet Association, Vossen
related to Related projects · 17
WordNet → An, Dictionary, FrameNet, ISO, ISO/TC37, Its, KYOTO, Lexical, LLMs, LMF, Meaning Monkey, TaxoLLaMa, The, UNL Programme, UNO, WordNet-based, Wordnet-LMF
related to External links · 14
WordNet → Adjectives, AIN, Cochin University, Computer Science, Intensifiers, Italian Sentiment, Malayalam WordNet, Maria, Negations, Official, Pilato, Science, Technology, Thesaurus
has application · 11
WordNet → ADW, Java, NLTK, Other, Perl, Python, Similarity, The, Various, WordNet's, WordNet-based
related to Licensed vs. Open WordNets · 10
WordNet → Collaborative Interlingual Index, English, Global WordNet, In, NLP, Princeton Wordnet, Some, The, The Open Multilingual Wordnet, Version
related to Psycholinguistic aspects · 8
WordNet → Antonymous, For, Psychological, Retrieval, The, Thus, While, WordNet's
related to As a lexical ontology · 7
WordNet → Although, DOLCE, Furthermore, However, In, The, WebKB-2
related to Limitations · 7
WordNet → For, However, ImageNet, Many, Synonyms, The, This

Important terminology Word statistics

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Important terminology

lexical words languages synsets database wordnets project semantic university ontology version available developed knowledge linked also including word used relations

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
WordNetAvailable inMore than 200 languages1.00infobox
WordNetDeveloperPrinceton University1.00infobox
WordNetLicenceBSD-like1.00infobox
WordNetOperating systemUnix, Linux, Solaris, Windows1.00infobox
WordNetOriginal authorGeorge Armitage Miller1.00infobox
WordNetRelease19851.00infobox
WordNetRepositoryhttps://github.com/globalwordnet/english-wordnet1.00infobox
WordNetSize37MB (including 161,705 words organized in 120,630 synsets for a total of 418,168 word-sense pairs)1.00infobox
WordNetStable release2024 Edition / 1 November 2024; 21 months ago (2024-11-01)1.00infobox
WordNetTypeLexical database1.00infobox
WordNetWebsitewordnet.princeton.edu en-word.net1.00infobox
WordNetWritten inProlog1.00infobox
WordNetis alexical database of semantic relations between words that links words into semantic relations including synonyms0.90text
WordNetis amost commonly used computational lexicon of English for word-sense disambiguation0.90text
WordNetis aproject at the University of Texas at Dallas which aims to improve WordNet by semantically parsing the glosses0.90text

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