African Wordnet Project
Wordnets for South African Languages
Version 1.0

https://africanwordnet.wordpress.com/

Languages included: Setswana (tsn), isiZulu (zul), isiXhosa (xho), Sesotho sa Leboa (nso), Tshivenda (ven), Sesotho (sot), Xitsonga (xho), isiNdebele (nde) and Siswati (ssw)

Format:
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XML version of the current wordnet for each language. 
The generated XML file is based on wn-lmf 1.1 (see https://github.com/globalwordnet/schemas for a description).
Developed using the expand model with Princeton WordNet 3.1 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 WordnetLoom browser. Please see the following publication for more details.
Tomasz Naskręt, Agnieszka Dziob, Maciej Piasecki, Chakaveh Saedi, and António Branco. 2018. WordnetLoom – a Multilingual Wordnet Editing System Focused on Graph-based Presentation. In Proceedings of the 9th Global Wordnet Conference, pages 190–199, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Global Wordnet Association.

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/

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 griesel(dot)marissa(at)gmail(dot)com or via SADiLaR.