EuroWordNet is a system of
semantic network
A semantic network, or frame network is a knowledge base that represents semantic relations between concepts in a network. This is often used as a form of knowledge representation. It is a directed or undirected graph consisting of vertices ...
s for European languages, based on
WordNet
WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words in more than 200 languages. WordNet links words into semantic relations including synonyms, hyponyms, and meronyms. The synonyms are grouped into ''synsets'' with short definit ...
. Each language develops its own wordnet but they are interconnected with ''interlingual links'' stored in the ''Interlingual Index'' (ILI).
Unlike the original Princeton
WordNet
WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words in more than 200 languages. WordNet links words into semantic relations including synonyms, hyponyms, and meronyms. The synonyms are grouped into ''synsets'' with short definit ...
, most of the other wordnets are not freely available.
Languages
The original EuroWordNet project dealt with Dutch, Italian, Spanish, German, French, Czech, and Estonian. These wordnets are now frozen, but wordnets for other languages have been developed to varying degrees.
License
Some examples of EuroWordNet are available for free. Access to the full database, however, is charged. In some cases,
OpenThesaurus and
BabelNet may serve as a free alternative.
See also
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vidby
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Babbel
External links
Lexical databases
Computational linguistics
Online dictionaries
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