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Wordnets in the world |
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| Language | Resource name | Developer(s) | Contact | Distributor/License |
| Afrikaans | Afrikaans WordNet | North-West University, South Africa |
Gerhard van Huyssteen | |
| Albanian | AlbaNet | Vlora University, Vlora, Albania |
Ervin Ruci | http://fjalnet.com/shqip.xml |
| Arabic | Arabic WordNet | Arabic WordNet | Christiane Fellbaum | http://www.globalwordnet.org/AWN/ Free download of XML formatted DB |
| Bantu languages | African WordNet | University of South Africa (UNISA) in Pretoria | Sonja Bosch | . |
| Basque | BasquWordNet | University of the Basque Country | Eneko Agirre (eneko@si.ehu.es) aradiaz@si.ehu.es | browse online only at http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/cgi-bin/mcr/public/wei.consult.perl |
| Spanish-Catalan-Basque | . | Consortium of Spanish Universities | German Rigau e-mail:german.rigau AT ehu.es | browse online only at http://garraf.epsevg.upc.es/cgi-bin/wei4/public/wei.consult.perl |
| Bulgarian | BulNet | Institute of Bulgarian Language Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria |
Prof. Sv. Koeva | ELDA/ELRA |
| Bulgarian | BalkaNet | University of Plovdiv – faculty of mathematics and computer science, Bulgaria | George Atanassov Totkov e-mail: totkov@pu.acad.bg | . |
| Chinese | Academica Sinica | Academica Sinica | Chu-Ren Huang e-mail: churen@sinica.edu.tw | browse online only at http://bow.sinica.edu.tw/ |
| Croation | Croatian WordNet | University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Linguistics | Marko Tadic marko.tadic@ffzg.hr | |
| Czech | EuroWordNet | Masaryk University Faculty of Informatics | Karel Pala e-mail: pala@fi.muni.cz | ELDA/ELRA (restricted, license fee required) |
| Danish | DanNet | Center for Sprogteknologi, Københavns Universitet, Copenhagen, Denmark and Society for Danish Language and Literature, DSL, Denmark. | Bolette Sandford Pedersen e-mail: bspedersen@hum.ku.dk and Jørg Asmussen, e-mail: ja@dsl.dk | Open source download |
| Dutch | EuroWordNet | Van Dale BV, University of Amsterdam | Piek Vossen e-mail:p.vossen@let.vu.nl | ELDA/ELRA (restricted, license fee required) |
| English | WordNet 2.0 | Princeton University | Christiane Fellbaum e-mail: Fellbaum@clarity.Princeton.edu | Princeton U. (free download) |
| English | EuroWordNet | University of Sheffield | Yorick Wilks e-mail: yorick@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk | ELDA/ELRA (restricted, license fee required) |
| Estonian | EuroWordNet | University of Tartu | Kadri Vider email: kadri.vider@ut.ee | ELDA/ELRA (restricted, license fee required) or browse for free |
| French | EuroWordNet | Université d’ Avignon et des Paysdu Vaucluse (AVI)Laboratoire dÍnformatique Memodata, Caen |
Marc El-Beze e-mail: marc.elbeze@lia.univ-avignon.fr Dominique Dutoit, email: d.dutoit@memodata.com |
ELDA/ELRA (restricted, license fee required) |
| French | WOLF | Alpage (INRIA / University Paris 7) | Benoît Sagot: benoit.sagot@inria.fr | download Cecill-C license (LGPL compatible) |
| German | GermaNet | Universität Tübingen | Erhard Hinrichs e-mail: eh@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de | contact (free for academic use, restricted for other types of usage, licences available through the GermaNet homepage") |
| German | EuroWordNet | Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen | Erhard Hinrichs e-mail: eh@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de | ELDA/ELRA (restricted, license fee required) |
| Greek | BalkaNet | Computer Engineering and Informatics Department,Database Laboratory,Patras University | Prof. Dimitris N. Christodoulakis e-mail: dxri@cti.gr | . |
| Hebrew | Hebrew WordNet | University of Haifa, Israel | Shuly Wintner e-mail:shuly@cs.haifa.ac.il | U. Haifa (free download) and browse online |
| Hindi | Hindi WordNet | Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai- 400 076, India | Professor Dr. Pushpak Bhattacharyya e-mail: pb@cse.iitb.ac.in | www.cfilt.iitb.ac.in/wordnet/webhwn open source (GNU FDL) |
| Hungarian | . | University of Szeged et al | Alexin Zoltán e-mail: alexin@inf.u-szeged.hu | . |
| Icelandic | NordicNet | Viki, Iceland | Heidar Jon Hannesson e-mail: heidar@viki.is | . |
| Italian | EuroWordNet | Instituto di LinguisticaComputazionale C.N.R. | Nicoletta Calzolari e-mail: glottolo@ilc.pi.cnr.it | ELDA/ELRA (restricted, license fee required) |
| Italian | MultiWordNet | IRST, Trento, Italy | Emanuele Pianta | browse online, license required for download |
| Irish | LSG ("Líonra Séimeantach na Gaeilge") | Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA | Kevin Scannell | Data are available for free download, linked from the main project site Also available for browsing in a 3d graph browser |
| Japanese | Japanese WordNet | NICT, Kyoto, Japan | Hitoshi Isahara (Kyoto), Francis Bond | Open Source download |
| Japanese/Chinese/German/English | Multi-Lingual Semantic Network project | . | Darren Cook | Free browse and download |
| Kannada | IndianNet | . | Senthil Nathan e-mail: zsenthil@yahoo.com | . |
| Korean | . | . | Seo Jung Yun e-mail: seojy@ccs.sogang.ac.kr | . |
| Korean | KorLex (Korean WordNet) | Korean Language Processing Lab at Pusan National University | Aesun Yoon e-mail: asyoon@pusan.ac.kr | browse online (login as ‘guest’) |
| Korean | AlexKor | Korean Language Processing Lab at Pusan National University | Dominique Dutoit e-mail: d.dutoit@memodata.com | browse online |
| Latin | . | University of Verona | Stefano Minozzi stefano.minozzi@lettere.univr.it | http://multiwordnet.fbk.eu/ |
| Latvian | . | Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia | Normunds Gruzitis, email:normundsg@ailab.lv | inactive project |
| Maltese | . | University of Malta | Michael Spagnol spagnol@maltanet.net | |
| Marathi | . | Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai- 400 076, India | Professor Dr. Pushpak Bhattacharyya e-mail: pb@cse.iitb.ac.in | www.cfilt.iitb.ac.in/wordnet/webmwn |
| Moldavian | BalkaNet | Kishinev, Moldova, Institute of Mathematics of Academy of Sciences of Moldova | Valentina Demidova | . |
| Nepali | . | Kathmandu University | Niraj Shrestha niraj@ku.edu.np | |
| Norwegian | Norwegian wordnet | Bergen University, Norway | Helge Dyvik e-mail: helge.dyvik@lili.uib.no | . |
| Oriya | . | Utkal University | Sanghamitra Mohanty http://www.ilts-utkal.org/ | . |
| Persian | PersiaNet | New Jersey, USA | F. Keyvan e-mail: FKeyvan@PersiaNet.us | . |
| Persian | FarsNet | Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, and Iran Telecommunication Research Center (ITRC) | Mehrnoush Shamsfard | http://nlp2.sbu.ac.ir/projects/farsnet |
| Polish | plWordNet/ Slowosiec | Wroclaw University of Technology | Dr. Maciej Piasecki | available online or research only download license also available |
| Polish | PolishWordNet | Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan', Poland) | Prof. Z. Vetulani | not available yet, but will be at http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~zlisi/index.en.html |
| Portuguese | WordNet.PT - Portuguese WordNet WordNet.PT - - WordNet for all Portuguese varieties in the world |
Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa |
Palmira Marrafa e-mail: Palmira.Marrafa@netcabo.pt Palmira Marrafa e-mail: Palmira.Marrafa@netcabo.pt |
available online Download will be available soon at http://www.clul.ul.pt/clg/wordnetptglobal/index.html |
| Brazilian Portuguese | . | Sao Paulo, Brazil | Bento Diaz | . |
| Romanian | BalkaNet | University "Al.I.Cuza" Iasi, Romania and Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, Bucharest |
Dan Cristea e-mail:dcristea@infoiasi.ro Dan Tufis e-mail:tufis@racai.ro |
online version |
| Romanian | Romainian WordNet | Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, Bucharest | Dan Tufis e-mail:tufis@racai.ro | online version only |
| Russian | . | Ilya Gelfenbeyn e-mail: ighmail@gmail.com | Free download | |
| Russian | RussNet | Department of Applied & Mathematical Linguistics, University of Saint Petersburg, Russia | Irina Azarova | license required, sample available for free |
| Russian | . | Center for Information Research at the Computer Center of the Moscow State University. | Tatyana Yudina e-mail: cir@online.ru | . |
| Sanskrit | . | Utkal University | Sanghamitra Mohanty http://www.ilts-utkal.org/ | . |
| Serbian | BalkaNet | Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Serbian | Professors Gordana Pavlovic-Lazetic e-mail: gordana@poincare.matf.bg.ac.yu Dusko Vitas e-mail: vitas@poincare.matf.bg.ac.yu | . |
| Slovenian | sloWNet | Dept. of Translation, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana & Dept. for Knowledge Technologies, Jozef Stefan Institute | Darja Fiser: darja.fiser@guest.arnes.si | Contact Darja Fiser: darja.fiser@guest.arnes.si Creative Commons License (attribution, non-commercial, share-alike) |
| Spanish | EuroWordNet | UNED/UPC/UB | Felisa Verdejo e-mail: felisa@lsi.uned.es | ELDA/ELRA (restricted, license fee required) |
| Swedish | . | Dept. of Swedisch University of Goteborg | Maria Toporowska Gronostaj e-mail: Gronostaj@svenska.gu.se | . |
| Swedish | . | Department of Linguistics & Phonetics, LundUniversity | Åke Viberg e-mail: Ake.Viberg@ling.lu.se | . |
| Tamil | Tamil Wordnet | AU-KBC Research Centre MIT Campus of Anna University Chromepet, Chennai 600 044, India Ph: 91-44-22232711/22234885 Fax: 91-44-22231034 | L. Sobha e-mail: sobha@au-kbc.org tamil wornet project | open source download |
| Thai ,Korean, Japanese, Indonesian, Myanmar, Vietnamese, Mongolian, Bengali | Asian WordNet | National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), 112 Phahonyothin Road, Klong Nueng, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand | Virach Sornlertlamvanich e-mail: virach.sornlertlamvanich@nectec.or.th | browse online only, Download to be available under open source (BSD) license |
| Turkish | BalkaNet | Centre for Turkish language and speech processing Bilkent university | Kemal Oflazer | browse online |
Related Products
| Product | Resource name | Owner(s) | Contact | Distributor |
| Domain lexicon | Wordnet Domains | IRST, Trento, Italy | Bernardo Magnini e-mail: magnini@itc.it | . |
| German Thesaurus | OpenThesaurus | Daniel Naber | Daniel Naber | free download from OpenThesaurus |