JWKTL – Java Wiktionary Library

JWKTL - Java Wiktionary Library, Version 0.1

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

JWKTL is freely available for non-profit and non-commercial use from the following website:
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/JWKTL. It was developed by the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab at the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany.

Reference publication:

Torsten Zesch, Christof Müller, Iryna Gurevych: Extracting Lexical Semantic Knowledge from Wikipedia and Wiktionary. In Proceedings of the Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). European Language Resources Association, 2008.

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