WordNet 3.0

Overview

• dataset_id: wordnet
• license: WordNet 3.0 license (Princeton)
• homepage: https://wordnet.princeton.edu

Dataset Structure Guide

This dataset publishes multiple Hub configs so researchers can choose the right view for their workflow.

What Configs Mean

A config is a named dataset view. It selects which files are loaded and which split names are exposed.

Available Configs

• aggregate: Default aggregate view across available variant paths.
  • splits: noun, verb, adj, adv
• data: Synset data files with glosses, words, pointers, and verb frames.
  • splits: noun, verb, adj, adv
  • file prefix: variants/data/
• index: Index files with lemma metadata, pointer symbol inventory, and synset offsets.
  • splits: noun, verb, adj, adv
  • file prefix: variants/index/
• exceptions: Exception files mapping inflected forms to base forms.
  • splits: noun, verb, adj, adv
  • file prefix: variants/exceptions/

Quick Start (datasets library)

Use the config explicitly to avoid ambiguity and to get the expected split layout:

from datasets import load_dataset

# Replace with your Hub repo id, e.g. '<namespace>/wordnet'
dataset = load_dataset('<namespace>/wordnet', 'aggregate')
print(dataset)

Split Semantics

These splits may represent domain structure (for example part-of-speech groups) rather than train/validation/test partitions. If you need ML evaluation splits, create an explicit derived split plan in downstream preprocessing.

Summary

WordNet is published as lexical-resource views rather than benchmark train/validation/test tasks.

Intended Use

• Lexical semantic analysis and symbolic NLP workflows.
• Knowledge graph and relation-structure exploration.
• Input resource for downstream task-specific data construction.

Schema Notes

• The same part-of-speech split names (noun, verb, adj, adv) can appear across multiple configs.
• The aggregate config combines variant outputs while preserving split names.

Evaluation Protocol

• For ML benchmarks, define explicit train/validation/test derivations from the lexical splits.
• Record any filtering or balancing logic to keep experiments reproducible.

Limitations

• Not a native benchmark dataset with pre-defined evaluation partitions.
• Coverage and lexical conventions follow WordNet source files.

Config Selection Guidance

• Use the data config for synset-level lexical structure.
• Use the index config for lemma and offset lookup behavior.
• Use the exceptions config for inflection-to-base mappings.
• Use aggregate when you want one entry point and can filter by variant in downstream code.

Standardization

• split_aliases: {"dev": "validation", "val": "validation", "valid": "validation"}
• rename_map: {}
• selected_columns: []

Exported Artifacts

• noun.parquet
• verb.parquet
• adj.parquet
• adv.parquet
• data
• WORDNET_FORMAT.md
• views/synsets.parquet
• views/words.parquet
• views/pointers.parquet
• views/frames.parquet

Provided

• context: {"repository_navigation": [{"active": false, "description": "Synset data files with glosses, words, pointers, and verb frames.", "path_in_repo": "variants/data", "splits": ["noun", "verb", "adj", "adv"], "variant": "data"}, {"active": false, "description": "Index files with lemma metadata, pointer symbol inventory, and synset offsets.", "path_in_repo": "variants/index", "splits": ["noun", "verb", "adj", "adv"], "variant": "index"}, {"active": false, "description": "Exception files mapping inflected forms to base forms.", "path_in_repo": "variants/exceptions", "splits": ["noun", "verb", "adj", "adv"], "variant": "exceptions"}], "schema": ["text", "is_record", "offset", "synset_offset", "lex_filenum", "ss_type", "w_cnt", "word_count", "words", "lemmas", "p_cnt", "pointer_count", "pointers", "frames", "gloss", "parse_error", "lemma", "lemma_text", "pos", "synset_cnt", "ptr_symbols", "sense_cnt", "tagsense_cnt", "synset_offsets", "inflected_form", "inflected_form_text", "base_forms", "base_forms_text", "variant"], "scope": "aggregate", "shared_description": "WordNet publishes an aggregate lexical view that keeps the noun, verb, adjective, and adverb splits intact while combining data, index, and exception rows under an explicit variant column.", "splits": ["noun", "verb", "adj", "adv"], "viewer_config_name": "aggregate"}

Repository Navigation

• data: variants/data | Synset data files with glosses, words, pointers, and verb frames.
• index: variants/index | Index files with lemma metadata, pointer symbol inventory, and synset offsets.
• exceptions: variants/exceptions | Exception files mapping inflected forms to base forms.

Citation

Miller (1995), WordNet: A Lexical Database for English.