EuroWordNet
Sign in to saveEuroWordNet (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.
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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.
The project was managed by Piek Vossen at the University of Amsterdam and ran in two phases funded by the European Commission: LE-2 (1996–1999) and LE-4 (1997–1999).
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