On behalf of The National Library of Norway, Kaldera
Språkteknologi AS is developing wordnets for both written
standards of Norwegian. - Version 1.0.0 of Norwegian Wordnet is
now available for download: go to the Lexical resources page. -
An online version of the wordnets is available on Kaldera
språkteknologi's web page. The National Library is funding the
development of separate wordnets for both written standards of
Norwegian. Each will contain at least 50.000 so-called synsets,
i.e. sets of one or more words with the same meaning. Words (or
rather: the meaning of the words) in the same synset will have
the same denotation, that is, core meaning. An example is
“horse”, “nag”, and “steed”. The synsets are related to each
other semantically by, e.g., hyponymy (a “horse” is an
“animal”), meronymy (a “finger” is a part of a “hand”), place
(an “oasis” is in a “desert”) and so on. A wordnet is an
important basic component in the development of language
technology solutions, for instance automatic translation, in