Global WordNet Association

Global Wordnet Association (2000-ongoing)

Vossen is Founder (2000) and President (2000-2024) of the Global WordNet Association. He founded GWA (with Christiane Fellbaum of Princeton University) in 2000 as a public and non-commercial organization that provides a platform for discussing, sharing and connecting wordnets for all languages in the world. For more information see:

 

  • 13th Global Wordnet Conference (GWC2025) organized in Pavia, Italy, January 27-31, 2025.
  • 12th Global Wordnet Conference (GWC2023) organized in Donostia / San Sebastian, Basque Country January 23-27, 2023.
  • 11th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2021) virtually organized in South Africa, January 18-21, 2021.
  • 10th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2019) organized in Wroclaw, Poland, July 23-27, 2019.
  • 9th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2018)  organized in Singapore, 8-12 January 2018.
  • 8th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2016)  organized in Bucharest, Romania, 27-30 January 2016.
  • 7th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2014) was organized in Tartu, Estonia, January 25-29,2014.
  • 6th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2012) was organized in Matsue, Japan, January 9-13, 2012.
  • 5th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2010) was organized in Mumbai, India, January 31 – February 4, 2010.
  • 4th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2008) was organized in Szeged, Hungary, January 22-25, 2008 [proceedings].
  • 3th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2006) was organized in  Jeju Island. Korea, January 22-26, 2006 [proceedings].
  • 2nd Global WordNet Conference (GWC2004) was organized in Brno, Czech Republic, January 20-23, 2004 [proceedings].
  • 1st Global WordNet Conference (GWC2002) was organized in Mysore, India, January 21-25, 2002.

At the 3rd GWA Conference in Korea, we launched the idea to start building a completely free worldwide Global Wordnet Grid. This grid will be build around a shared set of concepts, such as the Common Base Concepts used in many wordnet projects. These concepts will be expressed in terms of Wordnet synsets and SUMO terms. We invite people from all language communities to upload synsets from their language to the Grid. Gradually, the Grid will then be represented by all languages.

Francis Bond has taken this idea and created the MultiLingual WordNet, which is a full implementation of the Grid.

The Grid will be free and language contributions must therefore be provided under one of the following licenses to be included: