WordNet

WordNet
Developer(s)Princeton University
Initial releasemid 1980s
Stable release
3.1 / June 2011; 13 years ago (2011-06)[1]
Written inProlog
Operating systemUnix, Linux, Solaris, Windows
Size16MB (including 155,327 words organized in 175,979 synsets for a total of 207,016 word-sense pairs)
Available inMore than 200 languages
TypeLexical database
LicenceBSD-like
Websitewordnet.princeton.edu

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]

  1. ^ "WordNet News".
  2. ^ "WordNet Search - 3.1".
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "WordNets in the World". Global WordNet Association. Retrieved 19 January 2020.