Etymological Wordnet

The information is for the most part mined from Wiktionary. The semi-structured data is turned into a machine-readable etymological database that also incorporates some additional manually added etymological relationships.

For academic use, please cite the following publications: Gerard de Melo. Etymological Wordnet: Tracing the History of Words  PDF   BibTeX In: Proc. LREC 2014. ELRA, 2014, Paris, France. Gerard de Melo and Gerhard Weikum. Towards Universal Multilingual Knowledge Bases   PDF    BibTeX In: Principles, Construction, and Applications of Multilingual Wordnets. Proceedings of the 5th Global Wordnet Conference (GWC 2010). Narosa Publishing 2010, New Delhi India.

Please get in touch with Gerard de Melo if you would like to contribute to the Etymological WordNet or if you have additional suggestions or research proposals. There are several ways in which the data could be improved if you have a specific research project in mind.

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