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Title:Ancient Chinese WordNet
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Bibliographic Citation:Li, Bin, et al. Ancient Chinese WordNet LDC2026L03. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2026
Contributor:Li, Bin
Minxuan, Feng
Junyang, Dai
Huidan, Xu
Xin, Lu
Xinyu, Tuo
Lezhi, Wang
Yuqin, Zhang
Date (W3CDTF):2026
Date Issued (W3CDTF):2026-03-16
Description:*Introduction* Ancient Chinese WordNet was developed by Nanjing Normal University and contains lexical and semantic information for Ancient Chinese vocabulary dating back to the Pre-Qin period (before 221 BCE). The WordNet comprises 38,781 word forms and 55,100 senses, each manually linked to a corresponding synset in Princeton WordNet 1.6. The Ancient Chinese WordNet (ACWN) project began in 2012 with the goal of creating a structured lexical database to support linguistic research and natural language processing applications involving historical Chinese language materials. ACWN organizes vocabulary using WordNet's noun, verb, adjective, and adverb hierarchies and provides WordNet definitions, semantic relations, and categorization for each sense. *Data* Ancient Chinese WordNet contains 55,100 records, where each record represents a single Ancient Chinese lexical item mapped to one WordNet synset. It follows WordNet 1.6 organizational structure, including 22 noun categories, 15 verb categories, and additional adjective and adverb categories. Each entry includes the following fields: * ID - The serial number of the ACWN entry * Word - Ancient Chinese word form * wn_offset - 8-digit WordNet 1.6 synset offset with trailing POS (n/v/a/s/r) * senseid - Sense number for this word form (ordinal among that word's senses) * pos - Part of speech (noun (n), verb (v), adj (a/s), adv (r)) * wn_category - Numeric code for the WordNet 1.6 lexicographer file (category) * wn_synset - Synset headword(s) in WordNet 1.6 * wn_definition - WordNet gloss for the synset * wn_similar to - Synset with similar meaning * wn_pertainym - Pertainym synset offset(s) * wn_attribute - Attribute synset offset(s) * wn_hypernym - Hypernym synset offset(s) * wn_hyponym - Hyponym synset offset(s) The data is presented in UTF-8 encoded CSV and XLSX formats. *Samples* * WordNet Sample (CSV) *Updates* No updates at this time.
Extent:Corpus size: 5000 KB
Identifier:LDC2026L03
https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026L03
ISLRN: 662-487-315-741-3
DOI: 10.35111/m3h4-rm10
Language:Literary Chinese
Old Chinese
Language (ISO639):lzh
och
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Medium:Distribution: Web Download
Publisher:Linguistic Data Consortium
Publisher (URI):https://www.ldc.upenn.edu
Relation (URI):https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/docs/LDC2026L03
Rights Holder:Portions © 2026 Bin Li, © 2026 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
Subject:Literary Chinese language
Old Chinese language
Subject (ISO639):lzh
och
Subject (OLAC):historical_linguistics
Type (DCMI):Text
Type (OLAC):lexicon

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Citation: Li, Bin; Minxuan, Feng; Junyang, Dai; Huidan, Xu; Xin, Lu; Xinyu, Tuo; Lezhi, Wang; Yuqin, Zhang. 2026. Linguistic Data Consortium.
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