[Corpora-List] New Version of GermaNet, Release 8.0

[Verena Henrich]

We are happy to announce the availability of a new version of GermaNet 
(release 8.0).

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 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 have been added.

2: Nominal compounds have been split into their constituents (modifier 
and head) that are labelled with linguistic information such as foreign 
words and named entities. For more details, please see
http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/GermaNet/compounds.shtml

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