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An Open Version of WordNet

by syats on 7/30/20, 1:50 PM with 20 comments

  • by Isamu on 7/31/20, 5:17 PM

    Wordnet is already open, I think the advantage of this is that it is being actively maintained.

    From Wordnet:

    > Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and database and its documentation for any purpose and without fee or royalty is hereby granted, provided that you agree to comply with the following copyright notice and statements, including the disclaimer, and that the same appear on ALL copies of the software, database and documentation, including modifications that you make for internal use or for distribution.

  • by syats on 7/30/20, 1:50 PM

    Wordnet is like a dictionary in that it contains definitions and synonyms of words. It goes beyond a dictionary in that it also records relationships like hypernym (broader) and hyponym (narrower), which can be useful for "understanding" (what ever that means) text. It is a graph, that connects different senses (called synsets), and also senses to words. It used to be released under some close license and poorly maintained, now there's a fork of it on github to which all can contribute.

  • by jatsign on 7/31/20, 6:24 PM

    An animated graph of wordnet links may help explain why it's useful: https://www.wordsapi.com/

  • by rohan1024 on 7/31/20, 5:05 PM

    A fun way to access WordNet hosted by dict.org

        nc dict.org 2628
    DEFINE wn hacker
    Don't think it's open though.

  • by Bellamy on 7/31/20, 6:15 PM

    What exactly can you do/produce with this graph and connection of words? I can't understand the benefits.

  • by mark_l_watson on 8/1/20, 12:45 AM

    I have used WordNet for 20 years, off and on.

    Cool that is was forked and effort put into the new version.

    WordNet has a rich set of libraries in many languages to use the data. I didn’t see anything similar on their github repo.

  • by Yeroc on 7/31/20, 7:28 PM

    Is there a similar API with the etymology of the words? I played with this a bit and it doesn't seem to cover this area.

  • by rrose on 7/31/20, 10:06 PM

    it... doesn't know the word "how"? literally like the second word i typed in. it seems like this must have some holes in it?