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[edit] Background information on WordNet

An article from the New Jersey "Star-Ledger" that gives background information on WordNet, its developer (Professor George Miller), and its future.

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/news/stories/0122wordnet.html21

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Link to article seems not to work anymore. 80.131.165.118 09:14, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WordNet as an ontology

I think this page needs to focus more on WordNet being an ontology. The feature linguists and those in the field of NLP usually find most useful is the hypernym and hyponym relationships for nouns. This is also where most of the work was put into WordNet, which made it different than other dictionaries. There has been work in the other areas mentioned, but by far the biggest contribution from this resource is the "ontology" of nouns.

-has

This is an interesting remark, has. Could you give a reference to an article or a paper which illustrate your remark? Hirzel 08:57, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
Plenty of them, just Google for them. For example, the WordNet::Similarity Perl package contains a number of implementations of word similarity algorithms that uses WordNet as an ontology. --unkx80 18:10, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WordNet & Wiktionary

Is it possible to relicense WordNet's database to GNU FDL for Wiktionary? —Tokek 03:31, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

BSD license would imply that, yes. --maru (talk) contribs 05:07, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
As explained on the user's talk page (on 04:06, 5 May 2006 (UTC)), this is a bad idea because the synonym-grouping makes the definitions very inaccurate, and overall Wordnet is a psychology or artificial intelligence project, not a sound dictionary project. —Centrx→talk • 20:10, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== List of WordNet APIs

There are a number of "see also" and external links that point to products or sites that use or extend WordNet, including WordWeb, Wordnet.Net, TheFreeDictionary, Titiland Dictionary, and Online Synonymous Thesaurus. There are also some notable ones that are not mentioned. I propose to remove those individual product links and instead link to http://wordnet.princeton.edu/links#extensions which is the list of such efforts maintained by the WordNet group at Princeton. If that is too controversial, I will add some of those other projects to the external references instead.

Tono-bungay 21:06, 16 April 2006 (UTC)


[edit] API List

I've restored the section that refers to Princeton's list of recognized APIs after someone else removed it recently. I think it's appropriate to include the link for two reasons: first, people who are interested in WordNet APIs are more likely to choose to use one that has been recognized by Princeton, and second because Princeton's list is significantly larger (dozens of APIs versus five) than the ad-hoc one found here. If you can provide some reasonable justification for removing the link to Princeton's list then please provide it; however, at this point I don't see the logic in removing the link to the "official" list of dozens of APIs and leaving an ad hoc list of five whose only special significance is that some people cared enough to add them to Wikipedia. If anything, the ad hoc list should be eliminated and the link to Princeton's list should remain.

Anon -- February 13, 2008.

[edit] Wordreference.com

Wordreference.com uses WordNet extensively. Since it's a relatively popular site, perhaps it should be added in related projects and/or external links.

Kozmefulanito (talk) 16:38, 12 May 2008 (UTC)