Abstract
This paper introduces Wn, a new Python library for working with wordnets. Unlike previous libraries, Wn is built from the beginning to accommodate multiple wordnets — for multiple languages or multiple versions of the same wordnet — while retaining the ability to query and traverse them independently. It is also able to download and incorporate wordnets published online. These features are made possible through Wn’s adoption of standard formats and methods for interoperability, namely the WN-LMF schema (Vossen et al., 2013; Bond et al., 2020) and the Collaborative Interlingual Index (Bond et al., 2016). Wn is open-source, easily available, and well-documented.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.gwc-1.12
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 11th Global Wordnet Conference
- Month:
- January
- Year:
- 2021
- Address:
- University of South Africa (UNISA)
- Editors:
- Piek Vossen, Christiane Fellbaum
- Venue:
- GWC
- SIG:
- SIGLEX
- Publisher:
- Global Wordnet Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 100–107
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2021.gwc-1.12
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Michael Wayne Goodman and Francis Bond. 2021. Intrinsically Interlingual: The Wn Python Library for Wordnets. In Proceedings of the 11th Global Wordnet Conference, pages 100–107, University of South Africa (UNISA). Global Wordnet Association.
- Cite (Informal):
- Intrinsically Interlingual: The Wn Python Library for Wordnets (Goodman & Bond, GWC 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/naacl24-info/2021.gwc-1.12.pdf