Wiktionary is a multilingual, web-based, freely available dictionary, thesaurus and phrase book, designed as the lexical companion to Wikipedia. Lately, it has been recognized as a promising lexical semantic resource for natural language processing applications.
JWKTL is a Java-based API that enables efficient programmatic access to the information contained in the English and German language editions of Wiktionary:
- glosses
- part of speech
- etymology
- examples
- quotations
- references
- word language
- translations
- internal and external links
- categories
- related words
- antonyms, holonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, meronyms, synonyms, troponyms, "see also" terms, characteristic word combinations, coordinate terms, derived terms, descendants, etymologically related terms
It is described in our LREC 2008 paper.
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Free non-profit and non-commercial use is granted provided that the license agreement on the download page is accepted. The authors do not assume any responsibility for downloaded software and the use of the software. Please note that we can't offer any personal support for JWKTL.
Please contact the Head of Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych to use this software for commercial purposes.
For technical questions, please contact: Christof Müller
Latest version:
2009-03-18 jwktl-0.13
Changes:
v0.13 (2009-03-18)
- changes in the parser to solve problems with current dump files
v0.12 (2009-02-21)
- improved parsing of synonyms for English
v0.11 (2009-01-26)
- included a missing file that caused an exception when parsing English dump files