WordNet® is an online lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets. 数据挖掘研究院
WordNet was developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University under the direction of Professor George A. Miller (Principal Investigator).
Over the years, many people have contributed to the success of WordNet. Currently, the following individuals at Princeton work on the continuing development of WordNet and applying it to research:
- Professor George A. Miller
- Dr. Christiane Fellbaum
- Randee Tengi
- Susanne Wolff
- Pamela Wakefield
- Helen Langone
- Benjamin Haskell
Dr. Fellbaum′s work was supported in part by grant No. 9805732 from the National Science Foundation. 数据挖掘实验室
News
WordNet 2.1 is now available for Windows and Unix platforms. 数据挖掘研究院
The third Global WordNet meeting will take place in January, 2006 on Jeju Island, South Korea. The Global WordNet Association has more information and the Call For Papers. 数据挖掘研究院
A new web interface to the WordNet 2.1 database is available. This version is a completely different interface that allows users to expand and collapse nodes.
WordNet 2.0 is available for Unix and Windows platforms. WordNet 2.0 includes more than 42,000 new links between nouns and verbs that are morphologically related, a topical organization for many areas that classifies synsets by category, region, or usage, gloss and synset fixes, and new terminology, mostly in the terrorism domain. All of the packages, including the Prolog version and sense mapping package, are available for download.
WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database is available from MIT Press. D-lib magazine reviewed the book in its October 1998 issue.
