Wordnets in the world

The Global WordNet Organization is pleased to post information about wordnets on its website and welcomes submissions reporting on relevant work. Strictly commercial efforts will not be posted. Open source efforts are strongly encouraged. We only post links to resources that follow the wordnet design, which includes
  • links to WordNet (Princeton or others that are linked to PWN)
  • WN structure (minimally: synset, hyponymy)

LanguageResource nameDeveloper(s)ContactDistributor
AfrikaansAfrikaans WordNet North-West University, South Africa
Gerhard van Huyssteen
ArabicArabic WordNetArabic WordNet Christiane Fellbaum http://www.globalwordnet.org/AWN/
XML formatted DB
Bantu languagesAfrican WordNetUniversity of South Africa (UNISA) in Pretoria Sonja Bosch .
BasqueBasquWordNetUniversity of the Basque Country Eneko Agirre (eneko@si.ehu.es) aradiaz@si.ehu.es browse online only at http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/cgi-bin/mcr/public/wei.consult.perl
Spanish-Catalan-Basque.Consortium of Spanish Universities German Rigau e-mail:g.rigau@talp.upc.es browse online only at http://nipadio.lsi.upc.edu/cgi-bin/wei4/public/wei.consult.perl
BulgarianBulNet Institute of Bulgarian Language
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
Prof. Sv. KoevaELDA/ELRA
BulgarianBalkaNetUniversity of Plovdiv – faculty of mathematics and computer science, Bulgaria George Atanassov Totkov e-mail: totkov@pu.acad.bg.
ChineseAcademica SinicaAcademica Sinica Chu-Ren Huang e-mail: churen@sinica.edu.twbrowse online only at http://bow.sinica.edu.tw/
Croation Marko Tadic marko.tadic@ffzg.hr
CzechEuroWordNetMasaryk University Faculty of Informatics Karel Pala e-mail: pala@fi.muni.cz ELDA/ELRA (restricted, license fee required)
DanishDanNetCenter for Sprogteknologi, Københavns Universitet, Copenhagen, Denmark and Society for Danish Language and Literature, DSL, Denmark. Bolette Sandford Pedersen e-mail: bolette@cst.ku.dk and Jørg Asmussen, e-mail: ja@dsl.dk.
DutchEuroWordNetVan Dale BV, University of Amsterdam Piek Vossen e-mail:p.vossen@let.vu.nl ELDA/ELRA (restricted, license fee required)
EnglishWordNet 2.0Princeton University Christiane Fellbaum e-mail: Fellbaum@clarity.Princeton.edu Princeton U. (free download)
EnglishEuroWordNetUniversity of Sheffield Yorick Wilks e-mail: yorick@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk ELDA/ELRA (restricted, license fee required)
EstonianEuroWordNetUniversity of Tartu Kadri Vider email: kadri.vider@ut.ee ELDA/ELRA (restricted, license fee required) or browse for free
FrenchEuroWordNetUniversité d’ Avignon et des Paysdu Vaucluse (AVI)Laboratoire dÍnformatique
Memodata, Caen
Marc El-Beze e-mail: marc.elbeze@lia.univ-avignon.fr
Dominique Dutoit, email: d.dutoit@memodata.com
ELDA/ELRA (restricted, license fee required)
GermanGermaNetUniversität Tübingen Erhard Hinrichs e-mail:  eh@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de contact (restricted, license fee required)
GermanEuroWordNetEberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen Erhard Hinrichs e-mail:  eh@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de ELDA/ELRA (restricted, license fee required)
GreekBalkaNetComputer Engineering and Informatics Department,Database Laboratory,Patras University Prof. Dimitris N. Christodoulakis e-mail: dxri@cti.gr.
HebrewMultiWordNetHaifa Shuly Wintner e-mail:shuly@cs.haifa.ac.il U. Haifa (free download) and browse online
HindiHindi WordNetDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai- 400 076, India Professor Dr. Pushpak Bhattacharyya e-mail: pb@cse.iitb.ac.in www.cfilt.iitb.ac.in/wordnet/webhwn
Hungarian.University of Szeged et al Alexin Zoltán e-mail: alexin@inf.u-szeged.hu.
IcelandicNordicNetViki, Iceland Heidar Jon Hannesson e-mail: heidar@viki.is.
ItalianEuroWordNetInstituto di LinguisticaComputazionale C.N.R. Nicoletta Calzolari e-mail: glottolo@ilc.pi.cnr.it ELDA/ELRA (restricted, license fee required)
ItalianMultiWordNetIRST, Trento, Italy Emanuele Pianta browse online, license required for download
IrishLSG ("Líonra Séimeantach na Gaeilge")Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA Kevin Scannell Data are available for free download, linked from the main project site Also available for browsing in a 3d graph browser
Japanese.. Hitoshi Isahara (Kyoto).
Japanese/Chinese/German/EnglishMulti-Lingual Semantic Network project . Darren CookFree browse and download
KannadaIndianNet. Senthil Nathan e-mail: zsenthil@yahoo.com.
Korean.. Seo Jung Yun e-mail: seojy@ccs.sogang.ac.kr.
KoreanKorLex (Korean WordNet)Korean Language Processing Lab at Pusan National University Aesun Yoon e-mail: asyoon@pusan.ac.kr browse online (login as ‘guest’)
KoreanAlexKorKorean Language Processing Lab at Pusan National University Dominique Dutoit e-mail: d.dutoit@memodata.com browse online
Latin.University of Verona Stefano Minozzi stefano.minozzi@lettere.univr.it http://www.cyllenius.net/labium/
Latvian.Instituteof Mathematics and Computer ScienceUniversityof Latvia Baiba Krauze-Krūze email:baiba@ailab.mii.lu.lv.
Maltese.University of Malta Michael Spagnol spagnol@maltanet.net
Marathi.Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai- 400 076, India Professor Dr. Pushpak Bhattacharyya e-mail: pb@cse.iitb.ac.in www.cfilt.iitb.ac.in/wordnet/webmwn
MoldavianBalkaNetKishinev, Moldova, Institute of Mathematics of Academy of Sciences of Moldova Valentina Demidova.
Nepali.Kathmandu University Niraj Shrestha niraj@ku.edu.np
NorwegianNorwegian wordnetBergen University, Norway Helge Dyvik e-mail: helge.dyvik@lili.uib.no.
Oriya.Utkal University Sanghamitra Mohanty http://www.ilts-utkal.org/.
PersianPersiaNetNew Jersey, USA F. Keyvan e-mail: FKeyvan@PersiaNet.us.
PolishplWordNet/ SlowosiecWroclaw University of Technology Dr. Maciej Piasecki available online or research only download license also available
PolishPolishWordNetAdam Mickiewicz University (Poznan', Poland) Prof. Z. Vetulani not available yet, but will be at http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~zlisi/index.en.html
Portuguese.Universidade de Lisboa, Centro de Linguística and Instituto Camões Palmira Marrafa e-mail: Palmira.Marrafa@netcabo.pt.
Brazilian Portuguese.Sao Paulo, Brazil Bento Diaz.
RomanianBalkaNet University "Al.I.Cuza" Iasi, Romania and
Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, Bucharest
Dan Cristea e-mail:dcristea@infoiasi.ro
Dan Tufis e-mail:tufis@racai.ro
online version
RomanianRomainian WordNet Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, Bucharest Dan Tufis e-mail:tufis@racai.ro online version
Russian RussNet Department of Applied & Mathematical Linguistics, University of Saint Petersburg, Russia Irina Azarova license required, sample available for free
Russian.Center for Information Research  at the Computer Center of the Moscow State University. Tatyana Yudina e-mail:  cir@online.ru.
Sanskrit.Utkal University Sanghamitra Mohanty http://www.ilts-utkal.org/.
SerbianBalkaNetFaculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Serbian Professors Gordana Pavlovic-Lazetic e-mail: gordana@poincare.matf.bg.ac.yu Dusko Vitas e-mail: vitas@poincare.matf.bg.ac.yu.
SloveniansloWNetJozef Stefan Institute, Dept. for Knowledge Technologies, Slovenia Tomaz Erjavec e-mail: Tomaz.Erjavec@ijs.si.
SpanishEuroWordNetUNED/UPC/UBFelisa Verdejo e-mail: felisa@lsi.uned.es ELDA/ELRA (restricted, license fee required)
Swedish.Dept. of Swedisch University of Goteborg Maria Toporowska Gronostaj e-mail: Gronostaj@svenska.gu.se .
Swedish.Department of Linguistics & Phonetics, LundUniversity Åke Viberg e-mail: Ake.Viberg@ling.lu.se .
TamilTamil WordnetAU-KBC Research Centre MIT Campus of Anna University Chromepet, Chennai 600 044, India Ph: 91-44-22232711/22234885 Fax: 91-44-22231034 S.Arulmozi e-mail: arulmozi@au-kbc.org tamil wornet project.
Thai.NecTec, Bangkok, Thailand Virach Sornlertlamvanich e-mail: virach@nectec.or.th.
TurkishBalkaNetCentre for Turkish language and speech processing Bilkent university Kemal Oflazerbrowse online

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