GWC 2010
The Global Wordnet Association is pleased to announce The 5th International Conference of the Global WordNet Association (GWC-2010). It is also the 10th anniversary of the Global WordNet Association. The GWC-2010 will be held in Mumbai, India between 31st Jan. - 4th Feb., 2010. The organising institution of the conference is the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
The series of Global WordNet Conferences are designed to provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest research results and scientific achievements with regard to WordNet initiatives and related theoretical work.
What is a Wordnet?
Wordnet is a large lexical database of (any) language. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations. The resulting network of meaningfully related words and concepts can be navigated with the browser. Most of the Wordnets are also freely and publicly available for downloads. Wordnet's structure makes it a useful tool for computational linguistics and natural language processing.
In one sentence - Wordnet is a machine-readable lexical database organized by meanings.
The Wordnet is a system for bringing together different lexical and semantic relations between the words. It organizes the lexical information in terms of word meanings and can be termed as a lexicon based on psycholinguistic principles.