Wordnets in the World

Wordnets in the World


Language Resource Name Online Developer(s) Contact License Other
Multilingual African Wordnet Partially included in OMW University of South Africa , South African Centre for Digital Language Resources Sonja Bosch , Marissa Griesel Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Albanian AlbaNet YES Vlora University, Vlora, Albania Ervin Ruci (GPL)
Arabic Arabic WordNet (OMW) Arabic WordNet Horacio Rodriguez OPEN
200+ languages Open Multilingual Wordnet YES Computational Linguistics Lab Francis Bond OPEN
Multilingual Asian WordNet YES National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) , Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory (TCL) , NICT, Kyoto, Japan Virach Sornlertlamvanich at tcllab / Virach Sornlertlamvanich at nectec Hitoshi Isahara BSD
Malaysian, Indonesian Wordnet Bahasa YES Computational Linguistics Lab wn-msa-developers Francis Bond OPEN
Bantu languages African WordNet University of South Africa (UNISA) in Pretoria , North-West University, South Africa Sonja Bosch Handré Groenewald
English, Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Italian Multilingual Central Repository YES University of the Basque Country , Department of Software, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) Eneko Agirre Arantza Díaz-Ilarraza German Rigau CC By 3.0 , CC-BY-NC-SA Web EuroWordnet Interface 0.2 (by LSI-UPC)
Bengali Bengali WordNet YES Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Niladri Sekhar Dash CC By 3.0 Bengali WordNet
Bulgarian BulNet YES Institute for Bulgarian Language (IBL) , Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria Svetla Koeva CC By 3.0 ELDA/ELRA Bulgarian WordNet (BulNet) , BulSemCor
Multilingual BalkaNet YES (Not Working) DATABASE LABORATORY, COMPUTER ENGINEERING AND INFORMATICS DEPARTMENT UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS Dimitrios N. Christodoulakis George Atanassov Totkov
Traditional Chinese Wordnet YES Lab of Ontologies, Language Processing and e-Humanities, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan) , Academica Sinica, Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan) Chu-Ren Shu-Kai Hsieh WordNet Chinese Wordnet
Simplified Chinese Open Wordnet (COW) YES Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, NTU Francis Bond WORDNET
Croatian Croatian WordNet (CroWN) NO University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department/Institute of Linguistics Ida Raffaelli Marko Tadic CC-BY-NC-SA
Czech Czech WordNet NO Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague Karel Pala OLD VERSION: CC-BY-NC-SA Czech WordNet 1.9 PDT , ELDA/ELRA Czech WordNet
Danish DanNet YES Center for Sprogteknologi, Københavns Universitet, Copenhagen, Denmark , Society for Danish Language and Literature, DSL, Denmark Bolette Sandford Pedersen Sanni Nimb OPEN
Dutch Open Source WordNet Dutch Open Source WordNet NO CLTL, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Piek Vossen OPEN CLTL VU University
Dutch EuroWordNet Dutch NO University of Amsterdam Piek Vossen RESTRICTED ELDA/ELRA EuroWordNet Dutch
Dutch Combinatorial and Relational Network as Toolkit for Dutch Language Technology (Cornetto) YES Language and Communication, Faculty of Arts, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam , Nederlandse Taalunie Piek Vossen RESTRICTED (Browse Online Free) TST Centrale Cornetto
English WordNet 3.01 YES Princeton University Christiane D. Fellbaum OPEN SemCor , Princeton WordNet Gloss Corpus , MASC , Senseval
English EuroWordNet English NO University of Sheffield Yorick Wilks RESTRICTED ELDA/ELRA EuroWordNet English Addition to English WordNet
Estonian Estonian Wordnet (EstWN) YES University of Tartu Heili Orav CC – BY – NC META-SHARE Estonian WordNet(EstWordNet) , ELDA/ELRA EuroWordNet Estonian
Finnish FinnWordNet YES University of Helsinki Krister Lindén CC-BY
French WOLF OMW ALPAGE team , INRIA , Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 Benoît Sagot Cecill-C
French WoNeF YES CEA-LIST Gaël de Chalendar CC-BY SA 3.0 FR Browse online , Download WoNeF
French EuroWordNet French NO Université d’Avignon et des Paysdu Vaucluse (AVI) , Laboratoire d’Ínformatique Memodata, Caen Marc Elbeze Dominique Dutoit RESTRICTED ELDA/ELRA EuroWordNet French
German GermaNet NO Universität Tübingen Erhard Hinrichs FOR ACADEMIC USE WebCaGe
German EuroWordNet German NO Universität Tübingen Erhard Hinrichs RESTRICTED ELDA/ELRA EuroWordNet German
Hebrew Hebrew WordNet YES University of Haifa, Israel Shuly Wintner OPEN Browse online (on MultiWordNet)
Hindi Hindi WordNet YES Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Powai, Mumbai Pushpak Bhattacharya GNU FDL
Hungarian Hungarian WordNet (HuWN) NO University of Szeged Veronika Vincze OPEN FOR ACADEMIC USE MetaShare Commons NonCommercial-NoRedistribution (MSCommons_NoCOM-NC-NR)
Icelandic NordicNet (HuWN) NO Viki, Iceland Heidar Jon Hannesson
Italian ItalWordNet (EuroWordNet Italian) YES Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale C.N.R., Pisa, Italy Nicoletta Calzolari Adriana Roventini Rita Marinelli RESTRICTED ELDA/ELRA , ISST (Italian Syntactic-Semantic Treebank)
Multilingual MultiWordNet YES Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Center for Communication and Information Technology, Human Language Technology Group, Trento, Italy Christian Girardi MultiWordNet Staff CC-BY 3.0 MultiSemCor+
Irish Líonra Séimeantach na Gaeilge (LSG) Irish Language Semantic Network YES (3D Browser) Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA Kevin Scannel GNU GPL v3 wordnet-gaeilge on Google Code
Japanese Japanese WordNet YES National Institute of Information and Communications Technology of Japan (NICT), Kyoto, Japan Francis Bond JP , EN Jsemcor
Japanese, Chinese, German Multi-Lingual Semantic Network project YES Darren Cook Darren Cook MIT License (equivalent to the BSD and LGPL)
Multilingual IndoWordNet YES Center for Indian Language Technology – CFILT, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharya BROWSE ONLINE ONLY Visualize on IndoWordNet Visualizer
Kannada IndianNet Senthil Nathan
Korean Seo Jung Yun
Korean KorLex (Korean WordNet) YES (Not Working) Pusan National University Aesun Yoon BROWSE ONLINE ONLY (KorLex) Browse Online (login as ‘guest’)
Kurdish KurdNet NO University of Kurdistan Purya Aliabadi , Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili
French Memodata – Alexandria YES MEMODATA, CAEN (FRANCE) Dominique Dutoit BROWSE ONLINE ONLY
Latin MultiWordNet Latin YES University of Verona Stefano Minozzi CC-BY 3.0
Latvian Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia Normunds Gruzitis
Macedonian Macedonian WordNet NO Ss. Cyril and Methodius University , Staffordshire University Martin Saveski & Igor Trajkovski CC BY-NC 3.0 Automatic Construction of Wordnets by Using Machine Translation and Language Modeling
Kerala, India Malayalam WordNet YES Cochin University of Science and Technology Varghese Aniyan Kizhakkeparampil BROWSE ONLINE Facebook
Maltese University of Malta Michael Spagnol
Marathi Marathi WordNet YES Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Powai, Mumbai Pushpak Bhattacharya BROWSE OLINE ONLY
Moldavian BalkaNet Kishinev, Moldova, Institute of Mathematics of Academy of Sciences of Moldova Valentina Demidova
Nepali Kishinev, Moldova, Kathmandu University Niraj Shrestha
Norwegian Norwegian wordnet Bergen University, Norway Helge Dyvik
Oriya Utkal University Sanghamitra Mohanty
Persian PersiaNet PersiaNet New Jersey, USA F. Keyvan
Persian FarsNet YES Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran , Iran Telecommunication Research Center (ITRC) Mehrnoush Shamsfard OPEN FOR ACADEMIC USE FarsNet Web Application
Persian Persian Wordnet NO University of Tehran , NLP Lab Heshaam Faili Mortaza Montazery OPEN
Polish plWordNet YES Wrocław University of Science and Technology Prof. Dr. Maciej Piasecki OPEN
Polish PolNet NO Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan’, Poland) Dr. Prof. Z. Vetulani Creative Commons Public License Download PolNet
Portuguese Onto.PT – Portuguese WordNet YES CISUC, University of Coimbra Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira CC BY 3.0 Browse online , Download Onto.PT
Portuguese OpenWN-PT (Brazilian Portuguese Wordnet) OMW Fundação Getúlio Vargas University, Escola de Matemática Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Alexandre Rademaker OPEN OpenWN-PT on GitHub
Portuguese WordNet.PT – Portuguese WordNet YES Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa Palmira Marrafa BROWSE ONLINE ONLY
Romanian BalkaNet YES Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania , Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, Bucharest Dan Cristea Dan Tufis OPEN SemCor-En/Ro
Romanian Romanian WordNet YES Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, Bucharest Dan Tufis BROWSE ONLINE ONLY
Russian Russian Wordnet (Русский Wordnet) NO Wordnet.ru Ilya Gelfenbeyn OPEN
Russian RussNet NO University of Saint Petersburg, Russia Irina Azarova RESTRICTED (sample available for free)
Russian Russian WordNet Center for Information Research at the Computer Center of the Moscow State University Tatyana Yudina
Sanskrit ilts-utkal.org Utkal University Sanghamitra Mohanty
Sanskrit Sanskrit Wordnet YES Indian Institute of Technology , Centre for Indian Language Technology Malhar Kulkarni Pushpak Bhattacharya GNU FDL
Serbian BalkaNet Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Serbia Gordana Pavlovic-Lazetic Dusko Vitas
Serbian Serbian Wordnet (SrpWN) NO Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Serbia Gordana Pavlovic-Lazetic Cvetana Krstev CC_BY-NC
Sinhala Sinhala Wordnet NO Department of Computer Science and Engineering , University of Moratuwa Daya Chinthana Wimalasuriya , Gihan Dias not available yet
Slovenian sloWNet YES Dept. of Translation, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana , Dept. for Knowledge Technologies, Jozef Stefan Institute Darja Fiser Cvetana Krstev OPEN email Darja Fiser for a download link
Spanish EuroWordNet Spanish NO UNED , UPC , UB Felisa Verdejo RESTRICTED ELDA/ELRA
Swedish Dept. of Swedish University of Goteborg Maria Toporowska Gronostaj
Swedish Department of Linguistics & Phonetics, Lund University Åke Viberg
Tamil Tamil WordNet NO AU-KBC Research Centre MIT Campus of Anna University Chromepet Lalitha Devi Sobha OPEN Download Tamil WordNet
Turkish BalkaNet YES (Not Working) Center for Turkish Language and Speech Processing Kemal Oflazer
Uzbek UzWordnet YES LDKR Group, Inha University in Tashkent (IUT), Tashkent, Uzbekistan Alessandro Agostini CC BY-SA 4.0 Reference (GWC-2021)

Wordnets in the World

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Citations

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  • arb Horacio Rodríguez, David Farwell, Javi Farreres, Manuel Bertran, Musa Alkhalifa, M. Antonia Martí, William Black, Sabri Elkateb, James Kirk, Adam Pease, Piek Vossen, and Christiane Fellbaum. Arabic WordNet: Current State and Future Extensions in: Proceedings of the Fourth International GlobalWordNet Conference – GWC 2008, Szeged, Hungary, January 22-25, 2008
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  • fin Lindén K., Carlson. L., (2010) FinnWordNet — WordNet påfinska via översättning,LexicoNordica — Nordic Journal of Lexicography, 17:119–140
  • fre Benoit Sagot and Darla Fišer (2008) Building a free French wordnet from multilingual resources, E. L. R. A. (ELRA) (ed.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’08), Marrakech, Morocco
  • fre Q. Pradet, G. de Chalendar, J. Baguenier-Desormeaux (2014). WoNeF, an improved, expanded and evaluated automatic French translation of WordNet, In Proceedings of the Seventh Global WordNet Conference, Tartu, Estonia, January 25-29, 2014, 32-39
  • heb Noam Ordan and Shuly Wintner (2007) Hebrew WordNet: a test case of aligning lexical databases across languages. International Journal of Translation 19(1):39–58, 2007
  • ita Emanuele Pianta, Luisa Bentivogli and Christian Girardi. (2002) MultiWordNet: Developing an Aligned Multilingual Database. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Global WordNet, Mysore, India, January 21-25, 2002, pp. 293-302.
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  • kur P. Aliabadi, M. S. Ahmadi, S. Salavati, K. Sheykh Esmaili (2014). Towards Building KurdNet, the Kurdish WordNet, In Proceedings of the Seventh Global WordNet Conference, Tartu, Estonia, January 25-29, 2014, 1-6
  • rom Dan Tufiş, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Dan Ştefănescu, Radu Ion, TheRomanian Wordnet in a Nutshell. Language and Evaluation, Springer, Vol. 47, no. 2, 2013, ISSN 1574-020X, DOI: 10.1007/s10579-013-9230-7
  • pol Maciej Piasecki, Stanisław Szpakowicz and Bartosz Broda. (2009) A Wordnet from the Ground Up.] Wroclaw: Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wroclawskiej, Poland.
  • por Valeria de Paiva and Alexandre Rademaker (2012) Revisiting a Brazilian wordnet. In Proceedings of Global Wordnet Conference, Matsue. Global Wordnet Association. (also with Gerard de Melo’s contribution)
  • sin I. Wijesiri, M. Gallage, B. Gunathilaka, M. Lakjeewa, D. Wimalasuriya, G. Dias, R. Paranavithana, N. de Silva (2014). Building a WordNet for Sinhala, In Proceedings of the Seventh Global WordNet Conference, Tartu, Estonia, January 25-29, 2014, 100-108
  • tha Thoongsup S., Charoenporn T., Robkop K., Sinthurahat T., Mokarat C., Sornlertlamvanich V., Isahara H. (2009) Thai Wordnet Construction, Proceedings of The 7th Workshop on Asian Language Resources (ALR7), Joint conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP) Suntec, Singapore
  • uz (or uzn) A. Agostini, T. Usmanov, U. Khamdamov, N. Abdurakhmonova, and M. Mamasaidov (2021) UzWordnet: A Lexical- Semantic Database for the Uzbek Language. In S. Bosch, C. Fellbaum, M. Griesel, A. Rademaker and P. Vossen, editors, Proceedings of the Eleventh International Global Wordnet Conference (GWC-2021), pp. 8–19, Potchefstroom, South Africa, January 2021.