Global Wordnet Grid

Introduction

At the 3rd GWA Conference in Korea, we launched the idea to start building a completely free worldwide wordnet grid. This grid will be build around a shared set of concepts, such as the Common Base Concepts used in many wordnet projects. These concepts will be expressed in terms of Wordnet synsets and SUMO terms. We invite people from all language communities to upload synsets from their language to the Grid. Gradually, the Grid will then be represented by all languages.

The Grid will be free and language contributions must therefore be provided under one of the following licenses to be included:

A license containing the words "This work is released into the public domain by: [author]" and without any other license text
The Princeton WordNet license (with appropriate substitutions for the name of the institution and without any other license text)
(deprecated) The GNU Free Documentation License
The GNU General Public License
The GNU Lesser General Public License

We hope that the Grid will grow soon. First in languages and later in size. As a start we want to build the first version of the Grid around the set of 4689 Common Base Concepts. The English synsets for the Grid take the following form:

<SYNSET><ID>ENG20-00001740-n</ID><POS>n</POS><SYNONYM><LITERAL>entity<SENSE>1</SENSE></LITERAL></SYNONYM> <DEF>that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)</DEF> </SYNSET>

The DTD for the XML structure: DTD

To make your own contribution, keep the synset ID and just replace the SYNONYM fields. To submit your contribution to the Grid, please send the synsets of your language to:

Piek Vossen or
Adam Pease

We will place your language in the Grid as soon as possible!

We would also like to invite people to supply a nice web-based interface to the Grid.

The Grid

Number of languages in the Grid: 4

Language	Synsets	Date	Mapping	License	Download
GWG Catalan	12942	2006-Feb-5	WN1.6	GNU Lesser General Public License	DEBVisDic XML VisDic XML	browse
GWG Czech	4689	2006-Feb-5	WN2.0	Princeton WordNet-style license	DEBVisDic XML VisDic XML	browse
GWG English	4689	2006-Feb-2	WN2.0	Princeton WordNet license	DEBVisDic XML VisDic XML	browse
GWG Spanish	15556	2006-Feb-5	WN1.6	GNU Lesser General Public License	DEBVisDic XML VisDic XML	browse

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SUMO

3080

2007-Nov-06

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