 A snapshot of WordNet's definition of itself | |
| Developer(s) | Princeton University |
|---|---|
| Initial release | mid 1980s |
| Stable release | 3.1
/ June 2011[1] |
| Written in | Prolog |
| Operating system | Unix, Linux, Solaris, Windows |
| Size | 16MB (including 155,327 words organized in 175,979 synsets for a total of 207,016 word-sense pairs) |
| Available in | More than 200 languages |
| Type | Lexical database |
| Licence | BSD-like |
| Website | 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. While it is accessible to human users via a web browser,[2] its primary use is in automatic text analysis and artificial intelligence applications. It was first created in the English language[3] and the English WordNet database and software tools have been released under a BSD style license and are freely available for download from that WordNet website. There are now WordNets in more than 200 languages.[4]
- ^ "WordNet News".
- ^ "WordNet Search - 3.1".
- ^ G. A. Miller, R. Beckwith, C. D. Fellbaum, D. Gross, K. Miller. 1990. WordNet: An online lexical database. Int. J. Lexicograph. 3, 4, pp. 235–244.
- ^ "WordNets in the World". Global WordNet Association. Retrieved 19 January 2020.