Cygnet: Refactoring the Open Multilingual Wordnet

Rowan Hall Maudslay; Francis Bond

doi:10.63317/2v96snyewr2h

Cygnet: Refactoring the Open Multilingual Wordnet

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The wordnet file specification empowers the creators of different wordnets by allowing them to encode the same information in multiple different ways. A drawback of this approach is that redundancy is introduced. As a consequence, different wordnets often contain conflicting records, creating issues when one attempts to conduct multilingual research using multiple wordnets simultaneously. To address this, we present the OMW Cygnet, an experimental reformulation of wordnet that is designed to eliminate conflicting records and improve modularity. We convert data in 47 languages from the Open Multilingual Wordnet into this format, and release a web browser which makes it easy to navigate multilingual wordnets.

Anthology ID:: 2026.lrec-1.628
Volume:: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:: May
Year:: 2026
Address:: Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Editors:: Stelios Piperidis, Núria Bel, Henk van den Heuvel, Nancy Ide, Simon Krek, Antonio Toral
Venue:: LREC
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Publisher:: ELRA Language Resource Association
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Pages:: 7905–7917
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External URL:: https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-main-628
DOI:: 10.63317/2v96snyewr2h
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Cite (ACL):: Rowan Hall Maudslay and Francis Bond. 2026. Cygnet: Refactoring the Open Multilingual Wordnet. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 7905–7917, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resource Association.
Cite (Informal):: Cygnet: Refactoring the Open Multilingual Wordnet (Maudslay & Bond, LREC 2026)
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[Cygnet: Refactoring the Open Multilingual Wordnet](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.628/) (Maudslay & Bond, LREC 2026)

Cygnet: Refactoring the Open Multilingual Wordnet (Maudslay & Bond, LREC 2026)

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Rowan Hall Maudslay and Francis Bond. 2026. Cygnet: Refactoring the Open Multilingual Wordnet. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 7905–7917, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resource Association.