Announcing English WordNet 2019

The Global WordNet Association is happy to announce the release of English
WordNet 2019. This is a novel open-source wordnet for English developed as
a fork of the Princeton WordNet and fully backwards-compatible with the
Princeton WordNet. This version of the wordnet contains over 3,500 changes
that include updates to the definitions, examples, relations of synsets of
over 2,000 synsets as well as the addition of 800 new lemmas.

The English WordNet is available in three formats:

   -

   WordNet LMF <https://en-word.net/static/english-wordnet-2019.xml.gz>
   -

   RDF data based on the OntoLex-Lemon Model
   <https://en-word.net/static/english-wordnet-2019.ttl.gz>
   -

   Princeton-WordNet-compatible Database Files
   <https://en-word.net/static/english-wordnet-2019.zip>


In addition, a search and linked data interface is available at

https://en-word.net/

English WordNet 2019 is being developed under an open source model on GitHub
<https://github.com/globalwordnet/english-wordnet>, contributions are
welcome in line with the scope
<https://github.com/globalwordnet/english-wordnet/blob/master/README.md>
and guidelines
<https://github.com/globalwordnet/english-wordnet/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md>
of the project.


John P. McCrae,

On behalf of the board of the Global WordNet Association