[Corpora-List] New Version of GermaNet, Release 7.0

[Verena Henrich]

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/



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