What is GermaNet?
GermaNet is a lexical-semantic net that relates German nouns,
verbs, and adjectives semantically by grouping lexical units
that express the same concept into synsets and by defining semantic relations
between these synsets. GermaNet has much in common with the English
WordNet®
and can be viewed as an on-line thesaurus or a light-weight ontology.
GermaNet has been developed and maintained within various projects at the research group for General and Computational Linguistics
Division of Computational Linguistics
of the Linguistics Department, University of Tübingen
since 1997. It has been integrated into the
EuroWordNet (EWN), a
multilingual lexical-semantic database.
If you are looking for a more in-depth introduction of GermaNet and EuroWordNet, we recommend
Chapter 6.2 in Lothar Lemnitzer and Claudia Kunze: Computerlexikographie. Gunter Narr Verlag 2007.
You can download this text
(note that this text is in German). You can also
purchase the book.
For more detailed research papers related to GermaNet, please have a look at the publications section of this website.
How do I get the data?
GermaNet is free for academic users but you have to sign a licence.
To dowload the licence and learn more about our "R&D" and commercial
licences, please go to the licence page.