EuroWordNet (EWN) was a European research project to build a multilingual database of wordnets for several European languages. Each language has its own wordnet structured along the same lines as the Princeton WordNet, with synsets linked by semantic relations. The wordnets are interconnected through an Interlingual Index (ILI) that maps language-specific synsets to a shared set of concepts, enabling cross-lingual queries and applications.
Languages
The first phase (LE-2) produced wordnets for Dutch, Italian, Spanish, and English. The second phase (LE-4) extended coverage to German, French, Czech, and Estonian.
License
Some examples of EuroWordNet data are available for free. Access to the full database, however, is charged. In some cases, OpenThesaurus and BabelNet may serve as free alternatives.
See also
- WordNet
- BabelNet
- OpenThesaurus
- Linguistic Linked Open Data