WordNet in Freebase!Jamie Taylor

Freebase User Group - January 2010

Freebase is a community managed, semantic database

We understand a Topic through its relationship to other Topics

"Bolt""Bolt" "Disney" "Bolt""Bolt" "Wisconsin"

produced by contained by

...understand words in much the same way

torpedo

grindersub

hero

sandwichsnackfood

burgerReuben cheeseburger

torpedo

grindersub

hero

armament

aerialtorpedo

submarinetorpedo

But "torpedo" also means...

Word Sense

• Polysemous words

• words with multiple meanings

• belong to multiple synsets

• Synsets

• Sets of words that are synonyms

• ~ Concepts

• ~ Topics (& Types)

WordNet

• Started in 1985• At by George Miller at Princeton

• 148,729 Words

• 117,659 Synsets

• Currently on version 3.0

• Global WordNet Association "Grid"

torpedo

grindersub

hero

butty

burgerReuben cheese

burger

wedge

Cuban

Italian

McDouble

sloppy joe

BLTclub

synsets v. neighborhoods

WordNet Relations

• hypernym/hyponym

• meronym/holonym (part-whole)

• cause

• entailment

• instance

• antonym

Next Steps• Connect Wordnet to Freebase

• Synsets to Topics and Types

• Connections to Properties(?)

• Connect Freebase and Wordnik

• Enhanced WordNet• Stanford's Augmented Wordnet

• Map WordNet 2 to WordNet 3 in Freebase

• Global WordNet Association's Global WordNet Grid

Explorer App:http://wordnet.freebaseapps.com

Schema:http://wordnet.freebase.com

Resources