Getting Started with MalayalamWordnet

This rest web service is added for querying details from Malayalam wordnet. Searching could be done based on synset id , word or word and pos combination

WordNet is a semantic dictionary that was designed as a network following the idea that representing words and concepts as an interrelated system. WordNet groups words into sets of synonyms and provides short definitions and usage examples, also records a number of relations among these synonym sets or their members.

  WordNet can be seen as a combination of dictionary and thesaurus. WordNet superficially resembles a thesaurus, in that it groups words together based on their meanings. However, there are some important distinctions. First, WordNet interlinks not just word forms,but specific senses of words. As a result, words that are found in close proximity to one another in the network are semantically disambiguated. Second, WordNet labels the semantic relations among words, whereas the groupings of words in a thesaurus does not follow any explicit pattern other than meaning similarity. WordNet's structure makes it a useful tool for computational linguistics and natural language processing.

  Malayalam WordNet പദശൃംഖല is developed by the Department of Computer Science , Cochin University. പദശൃംഖല is developed in such a way that it could be easily used by common people as well as researchers. It works in a controlled crowd sourced manner in which the users would be able to add new words to the WordNet. Also there would be a option to edit existing synsets or adding new relationships. These would also be monitored by a group of users, so that WordNet always remains updated as well as error free. പദശൃംഖല also supports REST services.