23.2323, FYI: New Version of GermaNet, Release 7.0

Tue May 15 16:46:58 UTC 2012

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Subject: 23.2323, FYI: New Version of GermaNet, Release 7.0

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Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 12:46:55
From: Verena Henrich [verena.henrich at uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: New Version of GermaNet, Release 7.0

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We are happy to announce the availability of a new version of 
GermaNet (release 7.0).

GermaNet is a lexical-semantic net that relates German nouns, verbs, 
and adjectives semantically by grouping lexical units that express the 
same concept into synsets and by defining semantic relations between 
these synsets. GermaNet has much in common with the English 
WordNet (http://wordnet.princeton.edu) and can be viewed as an on-
line thesaurus or a light-weight ontology.

GermaNet has been developed and maintained within various projects 
by the research group for General and Computational Linguistics 
(Director: Prof. Dr. Erhard Hinrichs) at the University of Tübingen since 
1997.

The four most important extensions to this GermaNet release 
compared to the previous release are:

1: New synsets and lexical units for all word categories, and new 
relations were added.

2: The Interlingual Index (ILI) which was initially created in the context 
of the EuroWordNet project represents a mapping between wordnets 
of different languages. The German part of the ILI has been revised 
and extended and it has been integrated in GermaNet release 7.0. For 
detailed information see http://www.sfs.uni-
tuebingen.de/GermaNet/ili.shtml

3: GermaNet senses have been mapped to Wiktionary sense 
descriptions with the goal of extending senses in GermaNet (lexical 
units) with the respective descriptions from  Wiktionary. Please see 
http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/GermaNet/wiktionary.shtml for further 
information on this mapping/extension.

4: The internal working copy of GermaNet is maintained in a relational 
database (PostgresSQL). A dump of this database is now available to 
all customers as part of this GermaNet release. Find more information 
about GermaNet's database format at http://www.sfs.uni-
tuebingen.de/GermaNet/database.shtml

For information about technical details and licensing, please consult 
the project home page: http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/GermaNet/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Lexicography
                     Semantics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

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