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German Wordnet

GermaNet is a lexical-semantic network that has been integrated into the EuroWordNet (EWN). EuroWordNet includes wordnets for several European languages and each one of them is structured along the same lines as the Princeton WordNet (lexical reference system).

In a wordnet, which is basically a semantic network, the different lexical categories of words (nouns, verbs, ...) are organised into 'synsets' (sets of synonyms). Each synset represents a lexical concept and they can be linked by different types of relation (hyperonymy, antonymy, etc.). For evident purposes, all wordnets resort to the same system of synset identification.

After the EWN project and the creation of EWN German, new versions of GermaNet have been developed, with more synsets and lexical units.

Statistics for GermaNet (version 5.3, April 2010):
- Synsets: 61,659
- Lexical units: 84,586
- Literals: 76,709
- 1.37 Lexical Units per Synset
- Lexical Relations: 3,515
- Conceptual Relations: 73,686

GermaNet is a basic resource for computational linguistics purposes and language engineering applications (machine translation, IE, WSD, knowledge representation, etc.).

GermaNet II is under progress.

Identification

Period of coverage :

Version : v5.3 (April 2010)
Version history : v5.2 (December 2009), v5.1 (April 2008), v5.0 (May 2006)

Production

Creation date : 2006

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Number of languages : Multilingual
Language(s) : German