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WordNet - Lexical database for the English langugae

WordNet is an online lexical reference system. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/index.shtml
Source tarballhttp://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/wn1.7.1.shtml
Source informationhttp://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/obtain.shtml
Version 1.7.1 (stable) released on 2001-10-30
Licensed under a 2-clause BSD-style license.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User reference manual included and available in HTML format from http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/doc.shtml
Support contacts

Help List<wordnet@princeton.edu>
Developer List<wordnet@princeton.edu>
Bug List<wordnet@princeton.edu>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
  • Professor George A. Miller
  • Dr. Christiane Fellbaum
  • Randee Tengi
  • Susanne Wolff
  • Pamela Wakefield
  • Helen Langone
Sponsors
  • Cognitive Science Laboratory, Princeton University
  • National Science Foundation

Related information

Interfacescommand line, X Window System
Source languagesC
Related programsFlex

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2003-04-14
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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