Indian Language Technology Proliferation and Deployment Centre
The Hindi WordNet API is released under GNU GPL 3.0 and the lexicon under GNU FDL

Resource Center For Indian Language Technology Solutions,
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai.

You can browse the Hindi Wordnet through this interface. Hindi wordnet is based on idea of English WordNet. It is more than a conventional Hindi dictionary. It gives different relations between synsets or synonym sets which represent unique concepts.
  • This web site uses Unicode for Devangari fonts.
  • To view the pages correctly Unicode support should be installed on your computer.
  • Please visit unicode-support.doc (microsoft word file) to install unicode on the machine.
  • Please use keyboard map to enter word in unicode.
  • Windows 2000,Windows XP and Windows NT is preferred for best viewing.
  • If you do not see the fonts properly, Make the setting as follows: Right Click -> Encoding -> UTF-8.
  • In Linux, Viewing may not be as good.
  • Windows 98 view can not be gauranteed.
  • Searches that recursively traverse down noun hierarchies from very high in a tree (hyponyms of animals) are slower, as they require more processing.

Hindi Wordnet is now available through Lingusitic Data consortium: See the LDC catalog announcement

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For any query, please mail to Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya (pb[at]cse.iitb.ac.in), Mr. Prabhakar Pande (pande[at]cse.iitb.ac.in), Mrs. Laxmi (yupu[at]cse.iitb.ac.in) { replace [at] with @ }

For comercial use, please write to,

Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya,
Centre for Indian Language Technology (CFILT),
Computer Science and Engineering Department,
IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Powai - 400 076 .

The Dean R & D, IIT Bombay will countersign the form and the copy will be mailed back to you.

If the use is for commercial purposes, write for a separate agreement form to:

Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya,
Centre for Indian Language Technology (CFILT),
Computer Science and Engineering Department,
IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Powai - 400 076 .

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