Saturday, June 04, 2005

WordNet

WordNet - Princeton University Cognitive Science Laboratory

"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. ..."

There must be some way I can use this...

(via .NET Undocumented - Semantic Web and Ontologies)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looks like there's a .NET port, too:

http://opensource.ebswift.com/WordNet.Net/
http://www.csharphelp.com/archives2/archive378.html

Anonymous said...

Yep Jon, it is a fully functional .Net port. I modified Malcolm Crowe's original port to work with the WordNet 2.1 database, included missing word relation searches and fixed all known bugs. The project is LGPL, so I encourage everyone to get involved.