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Etymological Wordnet

Introduction

[etym-muscular] Some might be surprised to find out that the English
word "muscular" and the German word for the animal "bat" share the
same origins.

The Etymological Wordnet project provides information about how words
in different languages are etymologically related.

The information is for the most part mined from Wiktionary. The
semi-structured data is turned into a machine-readable etymological
database that also incorporates some additional manually added
etymological relationships.

Access Data

Browse Online[lexvo]
A very basic interface to (an older version of) the data is provided
at lexvo.com. A more advanced browsing interface will be available
later.
Download[download]
Download Etymological Wordnet 2013-02-08 version in Text (TSV) format
Java API[sourcecode]
Programmatical access for JVM-based progamming languages such as
Java, Scala, and so on. Download the UWN library and the Etymological
Wordnet plugin.

Note: A new version is currently in the works and expected to be
released in the summer of 2020. Please check back soon!

References

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For academic use, please cite the following publications:

Gerard de Melo.
Etymological Wordnet: Tracing the History of Words  PDF   BibTeX
In: Proc. LREC 2014. ELRA, 2014, Paris, France.

Gerard de Melo and Gerhard Weikum.
Towards Universal Multilingual Knowledge Bases   PDF    BibTeX
In: Principles, Construction, and Applications of Multilingual
Wordnets. Proceedings of
the 5th Global Wordnet Conference (GWC 2010).
Narosa Publishing 2010, New Delhi India.


Contact

Please get in touch with Gerard de Melo if you would like to
contribute to the Etymological WordNet or if you have additional
suggestions or research proposals. There are several ways in which
the data could be improved if you have a specific research project in
mind.


Further Resources

Universal Wordnet (UWN) [uwn]
One of the largest multilingual knowledge graphs, transforming the
well-known WordNet database into a massively multilingual resource
covering over 1 million words and several million named entities in a
single semantically organized hierarchy. This is based on machine
learning along with the MENTA extension based on Wikipedia. Our
derivative project OpenWordNet-PT (GitHub) is being used by Google
Translate.
Lexvo.org [lexvo]
Contributes information about words and other language-related
entities to the Linked Data Web and Semantic Web, leading to a Web of
Data in which the British Library, the Spanish National Library, and
others have linked their data to Lexvo.org, and Lexvo.org in turn
connects its own data to other valuable resources.
Sentiment/Emotion [emoji]
Datasets and resources for sentiment analysis and fine-grained
emotion analysis, in part available for multiple languages.
Other Resources [intensity]
We provide a number of other linguistic and knowledge-related
resources.

 

 
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