WordNet is now available as a part of Freebase. The presentation gives a very brief overview of the WordNet model and identifies the next steps involved in connecting Freebase Topics to WordNet synsets.

1. WordNet in Freebase!
Jamie Taylor
Freebase User Group - January 2010

2. Freebase is a community managed,
semantic database
We understand a Topic through its
relationship to other Topics
"Bolt" "Disney" "Bolt" "Wisconsin"
produced by contained by

3. ...understand words in much the
same way

4. cheese
Reuben burger
burger
sub
hero grinder
snack sandwich torpedo
food

5. But "torpedo" also means...
armament
sub
hero grinder
submarine
torpedo
aerial
torpedo
torpedo

6. Word Sense
• Polysemous words
• words with multiple meanings
• belong to multiple synsets
• Synsets
• Sets of words that are synonyms
• ~ Concepts
• ~ Topics (& Types)

7. 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"

8. McDouble
Reuben cheese
burger burger
Italian sloppy joe
sub
hero grinder Cuban
torpedo wedge
club
BLT
butty
synsets v. neighborhoods

9. WordNet Relations
• hypernym/hyponym
• meronym/holonym (part-whole)
• cause
• entailment
• instance
• antonym

10. 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

11. Resources
Schema:
http://wordnet.freebase.com
Explorer App:
http://wordnet.freebaseapps.com