GermaNet Version 5.3 - XML Version
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Release date: April 2010


Project members for release 5.3 (alphabetically)
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Reinhild Barkey (coding)
Verena Henrich (software development, database, export to XML)


Significant Changes Compared to Version 5.2
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* Frames and examples were added for the verbs.
* The counters for sense numbers of lexical units now extend over all GermaNet data files, instead
  of keeping separate counters for each file as was done in previous releases. This choice was made
  for consistency with the Princeton WordNet for English.
* New synsets, lexical units, and relations were added.


Quantitative Data
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Synsets: 61659
Lexical units: 84586
Literals: 76709
1,37 Lexical Units per Synset
1,10 Lesarten per Literal
Number of conceptual relations: 73686
Number of lexical relations: 3515 (synonymy excluded)


Structure
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The data structure for the linguistic objects (synsets, lexical units) is described in
germanet_objects.dtd. The data structure for the relations (file gn_relations.xml) is described in
germanet_relations.dtd.


Supporting Programs
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Verena Henrich has developed a Java-API 2.0 to GermaNet 5.2 onwards, and Holger Wunsch has developed
a Perl-API 2.0. Please note that due to the changes on the GermaNet data content, it was necessary
to adapt the APIs correspondingly. Thus all programs that are using a previous version of the APIs
(under 2.0) have to be revised to the new API. More information about this on our homepage:
http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/GermaNet

Further software especially for visualisation has been developed at the University of Dortmund, by
Prof. Dr. Angelika Storrer. Verena Henrich updated this software to the new version of the data.
More information on our homepage.


Contact and Information
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There is further information about GermaNet at: www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/GermaNet

Please address your questions and comments to: germanetinfo@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de