Lexical Resources

SIGLEX used to maintain a list of lexical resources. With the advent of LRE Map, this list is no longer maintained.

Name Type Language Availability Sponsor Details
WordNet WordNets; General English Public Cognitive Science Laboratory, Princeton University Details
The SPECIALIST Lexicon General English Public The Lexical Systems Group, National Library of Medicine Details
eXtended WordNet (XWN) WordNets; General English Public Human Language Technology Research Institute, University of Texas at Dallas Details
Lexical Conceptual Structure Verb Database Verb English Public Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Laboratory, University of Maryland Details
Verb Frame Search Tool Verb; Semantic analysis; WordNets; FrameNets English Public Center for Research in Computational Linguistics, Bangkok Details
VerbNet Verb English Public University of Colorado, Boulder Details
FrameNet FrameNets English Research license International Computer Science Institute, University of California at Berkeley Details
Tools from the Linguistic Computing Laboratory Semantic analysis; General; Word-sense disambiguation; Dictionaries; Research centers and groups Multilingual Public Computer Science Department of the University of Roma Details
LCS Database Documentation Verb English Public Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Laboratory, University of Maryland Details
The Preposition Project (TPP) Preposition English Public CL Research Details
The Preposition Project (TPP) Online Database Preposition English Public CL Research Details
Moby Lexicon Project General; Phonetic databases; Dictionaries; Thesaurus French; German; Italian; Spanish; Japanese Public University of Sheffield Details
Lexical Conceptual Structure Preposition Database Preposition English Public Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Laboratory, University of Maryland Details
Graded sense and usage annotation Word-sense disambiguation; WordNets English Public The University of Texas at Austin Details
Spanish FrameNet FrameNets Spanish Public Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain) Details
Japanese FrameNet FrameNets Public Keio University Details
Moby Pronunciator General; Phonetic databases English Public The Institute for Language, Speech, and Hearing Details
Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary General; Phonetic databases English Public Carnegie Mellon University Details
Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) Tools and software Not language-specific Public NLTK Details
Dictionary Writing System (DPS) Dictionary software Not language-specific Commercial license IDM Details
TshwaneLex Dictionary Production System Dictionary software Not language-specific Commercial license TshwaneDJe Human Language Technology Details
DIctionary MAintenance Programs (DIMAP) Dictionary software Not language-specific Commercial license CL Research Details
Lexical Knowledge Base (LKB) Dictionary software Not language-specific Public Deep Linguistic Processing with HPSG Initiative (DELPH-IN) Details
Dictionary Development Process Dictionary software Not language-specific Public SIL International Details
Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) Ontologies Not language-specific Public IEEE Details
OpenCyc Ontologies Not language-specific Public Cycorp, Inc. Details
Protege Dictionary software; Ontologies Not language-specific Public Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research Details
Google Web 1T 5-Gram Database Concordancers Not language-specific Public Computational Linguistics group at the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück Details
Sketch Engine Concordancers; Dictionary software Not language-specific Commercial license Lexical Computing Ltd Details
Alphabetic UMLS Specialist Lexicon General; biomedical lexicon English Public CL Research Details
Alphabetic Version of WordNet General; WordNets English Public CL Research Details
Alphabetic FrameNet Dictionary General; FrameNets English Public CL Research Details
FrameNet Explorer for Windows (3.0) Tools and software; FrameNets Not language-specific Public CL Research Details
Open Roget's Research resources; Ontologies; machine-tractable thesauri English Public School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada Details
Online Japanese Dictionaries and Glossaries General; Dictionaries; Glossaries; thesauruses; subject-specific dictionaries Public Monash University Details
GermaNet WordNets German Research license University of Tübingen Details
SentiWordNet WordNets; General English Research license Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISTI-CNR) Details
Semantic Orientations of Words General; WordNets; Semantic orientation Research license Advanced Information Processing Division, Tokyo Institute of Technology Details
FrameNet Frame Element Taxonomy Ontologies; FrameNets Not language-specific Public CL Research Details
Adsotrans Tools and software Bilingual; English; Chinese Public Popup Chinese Details
SALDO Semantic networks; General Swedish Public Språkbanken, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Details
Swedish FrameNet++ FrameNets Swedish Public Språkbanken, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Details
Lexicon-Grammar Lexicons French Public CNRS, French Ministry of Higher Education, Institute of French Linguistics Details
Lexicon-Grammar Lexicons French Public CNRS, French Ministry of Higher Education, Institute of French Linguistics Details
HeidelTime, a temporal tagger Taggers Multilingual Public Institute of Computer Science, University of Heidelberg Details
Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) Electronic data repositories Not language-specific Public University of Pennsylvania Details
DANTE General English Public Foras na Gaeilge (Ireland), Lexicography Masterclass (UK) Details
Simple Dictionary and Interlingua Verb; Dictionaries English Public Chris Daniel Details
European Language Resources Association (ELRA) Electronic data repositories Not language-specific Research license European Language Resources Association (ELRA) Details
International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) Electronic data repositories Not language-specific Research license University of Bergen, Norway Details
plWordNet WordNets Polish Public Wroclaw University of Technology Details
AnCora Catalan 2.0.0 General Not language-specific Research license CLiC, Centre de Llenguate i Computació Details
AnCora Spanish 2.0.0 General Research license CLiC, Centre de Llenguate i Computació Details
AnCora Spanish dependency 2.0.0 General Research license CLiC, Centre de Llenguate i Computació Details
AnCora Spanish dependency 2.0.0 General Spanish Research license CLiC, Centre de Llenguate i Computació Details
AnCoraLex Catalana 2.0.3 General; Verb Research license CLiC, Centre de Llenguate i Computació Details
AnCoraLex Spanish 2.0.3 Noun; Verb Spanish Research license CLiC, Centre de Llenguate i Computació Details
The Preposition Project (TPP) Corpora Word-sense disambiguation; Research resources English Public CL Research Details
Open Roget’s Dictionaries English Public Details