Welcome

Welcome to the home page for the WordNet.Net library - the .Net Framework library for WordNet.  The initial source release was on 6 June 2005.  This library is maintained and managed by Troy Simpson.  Malcolm Crowe is the author of the legacy library code which is now superceded by several WordNet database versions and library enhancements/bug fixes.

Journal and article writers, please reference the WordNet library as:

Simpson T., Crowe M., 2005, WordNet.Net http://opensource.ebswift.com/WordNet.Net

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• Download WordNet.Net for WordNet 3.0 via subversion from this repository: http://wordnetdotnet.googlecode.com/svn/trunk, or browse online.  See the instructions "How To Checkout WordNet.Net Source."
• A WordNet 2.1 version of WordNet.Net has been tagged.  This tagged version is static - it will not be updated with any new bug fixes or enhancements.  All further development of WordNet.Net is now for WordNet 3.0.  Browse the WordNet 2.1 version online.  The subversion checkout address is http://wordnetdotnet.googlecode.com/svn/tags/WordNet2.1

Simplified Database Available

Geo Massar has kindly provided a simplified database for easier application development.  The file can be downloaded directly from this site here:

• WordNet.zip

You can find more information about this simplified database and discuss it with Geo in the forum.  Geo is forum member 'KawaGeo'.

Project Links

Introduction
Forum (no longer used, see conversation widget below)
Wiki
Bug Tracker

Requirements

• WordNet 3.0
• Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0
• Visual Studio 2005 or SharpDevelop 2 or above

WordNet.Net Projects, Articles and Journals

These projects/publications reference the WordNet.Net library:

• Seamlessly integrating service discovery into UML requirements processes
• WordNet-based semantic similarity measurement
• SharpNLP
• Increase the efficiency of English-Chinese sentence alignment: target range restriction and empirical selection of stop words
• A new unsupervised method for document clustering by using WordNet lexical and conceptual relations
• Automatic Prediction of Item Difficulty Based on Semantic Similarity Measures
• Ontology Based Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous Geographical Information Systems
• Personalizing Entity Detection and Recommendation with a Fusion of Web Log Mining Techniques
• Automation of webpage quality determination
• Concept-Based Semantic Annotation, Indexing and Retrieval of Office-Like Document Units
• Mining API Mapping for Language Migration
• The semantic component library system expansion with ontology reasoning
• Semantic memory as a basis for Control chatterbot
• Sentence and Word Alignment of English-Chinese Paragraphs with Lexical Translations
• A Tool for Semantic Integration of Geographic Ontologies
• Discovering Web Services to Specify More Complete System Requirements

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