African Wordnet Project
Wordnets for South African Languages
Version 0.1

https://africanwordnet.wordpress.com/

Languages included: Setswana (tsn), isiZulu (zul), isiXhosa (xho), Sesotho sa Leboa (nso), Tshivenda (ven)

Format:
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XML version of the current wordnet for each language. 
Developed using the expand model with Princeton WordNet 2.0 as basis.

Each wordnet contains synsets with at least the following fields:
*Word form (lemma; synonym)
*ID (linking to the Princeton Wordnet 2.0)
*Part of speech
*Domain
*SUMO/MILO classification

Additional data may include the following fields:
*Usage example(s)
*Definition
*Hypernym
*Hyponym
*Stamp
*Notes
*Non-lexicalisation

Browsing the wordnets:
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These files are best viewed in the DEBVisDic browser, where installation instructions are given (https://deb.fi.muni.cz/clients-debvisdic.php).

License:
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These files are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. 
All files are distributed under the same conditions.
URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

ISLRN index:
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Each of the language files have been indexed using the following ISLRN. Please reference this index when using a particular language resource:

AWN: isiZulu 884-495-382-918-6
AWN: isiXhosa 484-200-848-869-7
AWN: Tshivenda 193-390-599-634-9
AWN: Setswana 609-257-955-359-4
AWN: Sesotho sa Leboa 639-836-685-202-8

Attribute work to:
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Bosch, Sonja and Griesel, Marissa. 2017. Strategies for building wordnets for under-resourced languages: the case of African languages. Literator 38(1). https://doi.org/10.4102/lit.v38i1.1351 http://www.literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/1351. 

Contact:
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Any feedback or communication to griesm(at)unisa(dot)ac(dot)za