Editing WordNet (section)

{{Short description|Computational lexicon of English}}
{{Infobox software
| title = WordNet
| name = WordNet
| screenshot = WordNet.PNG
| screenshot size = 300px
| caption = A snapshot of WordNet's definition of itself
| author = [[George Armitage Miller]]
| developer = [[Princeton University]]
| released = mid 1980s
| latest release version = 2024 Edition
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2024|11|1|df=yes}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wordnet.princeton.edu/news-0 |title=WordNet News}}</ref>
| repo = https://github.com/globalwordnet/english-wordnet
| programming language = [[Prolog]]
| operating system = Unix, Linux, Solaris, Windows
| size = 37MB (including 161,705 words organized in 120,630 synsets for a total of 418,168 word-sense pairs)
| language = More than 200 languages
| genre = [[Lexical database]]
| licence = [[BSD licenses|BSD-like]]
| website = {{URL|https://wordnet.princeton.edu/}}
{{URL|https://en-word.net/}}
}}

'''WordNet''' is a [[lexical database]] of [[semantic relation]]s between [[word]]s that links [[word]]s into [[semantic relation]]s including [[synonyms]], [[hyponyms]], and [[meronym]]s. The synonyms are grouped into ''[[synsets]]'' with short definitions and usage examples. It can thus be seen as a combination and extension of a [[dictionary]] and [[thesaurus]]. Its primary use is in automatic [[natural language processing|text analysis]] and [[artificial intelligence]] applications. It was first created in the [[English language]]<ref>G. A. Miller, R. Beckwith, C. D. Fellbaum, D. Gross, K. Miller. 1990. WordNet: An online lexical database. Int. J. Lexicograph. 3, 4, pp. 235–244.</ref> and the English WordNet [[database]] and [[software]] tools have been released under a [[BSD License|BSD style license]] and are freely available for download. The latest official release from Princeton was released in 2011.{{Citation needed|date=February 2025}} Princeton currently has no plans to release any new versions due to staffing and funding issues.<ref name=":0" /> New versions are still being released annually through the Open English WordNet website. Until about 2024{{Citation needed|date=February 2025}} an online version was previously available through wordnet.princeton.edu. That version of WordNet has been deprecated, but a new online version is available at en-word.net. There are now WordNets in more than 200 languages.<ref>{{cite web |title=WordNets in the World |url=http://globalwordnet.org/resources/wordnets-in-the-world/ |website=Global WordNet Association |access-date=19 January 2020}}</ref>