Overview

Welcome to the Open Multilingual Wordnet (OMW) project. The goal of this project is to make it easy to use wordnets in multiple languages. We have been working for many years to make a shared format and link the wordnets together. OMW and its components are open: they can be freely used, modified, and shared by anyone for any purpose. There is a fuller list of wordnets at the Global Wordnet Association's Wordnets in the World page.

If you use these wordnets, please cite the original projects who created them, if you got value from this aggregation/normalization, please cite Bond and Paik (2012).

There are currently two versions of the OMW.

• OMW Version 1 links hand created wordnets and automatically created wordnets for over a 150 languages through the Princeton Wordnet of English.
• OMW Version 2, the current (experimental) version, uses the Collaborative Interlingual Index to link the wordnets together (Bond etal., 2016) .

References

Francis Bond and Kyonghee Paik (2012)

A survey of wordnets and their licenses In Proceedings of the 6th Global WordNet Conference (GWC 2012). Matsue. 64–71

Francis Bond, Piek Vossen, John McCrae, and Christiane Fellbaum (2016)

CILI: the Collaborative Interlingual Index. In Proceedings of the 8th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2016), Bucharest. pp 50–57