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Database Packages
The most recent Windows version of WordNet is 2.1, released in March 2005. Version 3.0 for Unix/Linux/Solaris/etc. was released in December, 2006. Download the latest WordNet packages, including the Prolog version and sense mapping files, here.
Standoff Files
Several "standoff" files provide further semantic information to supplement the WordNet 3.0 release. Click here for general information and to download. The standoff files include:
- Semantically annoted gloss corpus
- Evocation database
- Morphosemantic Links (Semantic relations between morphologically related nouns and verbs)
- Teleological Links (an encoding of typical activity for which artifact was intended)
- "Core" WordNet (5000 more frequently used word senses)
- Logical Forms (logical forms for glosses)
Old versions and other tools
Old versions are no longer maintained!
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