<s>
GermaNet	B-Application
is	O
a	O
semantic	O
network	O
for	O
the	O
German	O
language	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
relates	O
nouns	O
,	O
verbs	O
,	O
and	O
adjectives	O
semantically	O
by	O
grouping	O
lexical	O
units	O
that	O
express	O
the	O
same	O
concept	O
into	O
synsets	B-General_Concept
and	O
by	O
defining	O
semantic	O
relations	O
between	O
these	O
synsets	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
GermaNet	B-Application
is	O
free	O
for	O
academic	O
use	O
,	O
after	O
signing	O
a	O
license	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
GermaNet	B-Application
has	O
much	O
in	O
common	O
with	O
the	O
English	O
WordNet	B-General_Concept
and	O
can	O
be	O
viewed	O
as	O
an	O
on-line	O
thesaurus	O
or	O
a	O
light-weight	O
ontology	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
GermaNet	B-Application
has	O
been	O
developed	O
and	O
maintained	O
at	O
the	O
University	O
of	O
Tübingen	O
since	O
1997	O
within	O
the	O
research	O
group	O
for	O
General	O
and	O
Computational	O
Linguistics	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
has	O
been	O
integrated	O
into	O
the	O
EuroWordNet	B-General_Concept
,	O
a	O
multilingual	O
lexical-semantic	O
database	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
GermaNet	B-Application
partitions	O
the	O
lexical	O
space	O
into	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
concepts	O
that	O
are	O
interlinked	O
by	O
semantic	O
relations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
semantic	O
concept	O
is	O
modeled	O
by	O
a	O
synset	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
synset	B-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
words	O
(	O
called	O
lexical	O
units	O
)	O
where	O
all	O
the	O
words	O
are	O
taken	O
to	O
have	O
the	O
same	O
or	O
almost	O
the	O
same	O
meaning	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Thus	O
,	O
a	O
synset	B-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
synonyms	O
grouped	O
under	O
one	O
definition	O
,	O
or	O
"	O
gloss	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
addition	O
to	O
the	O
gloss	O
,	O
synsets	B-General_Concept
are	O
labeled	O
with	O
their	O
syntactic	O
function	O
and	O
accompanied	O
by	O
example	O
sentences	O
for	O
each	O
distinct	O
meaning	O
in	O
the	O
synset	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Just	O
as	O
in	O
WordNet	B-General_Concept
,	O
for	O
each	O
word	O
category	O
the	O
semantic	O
space	O
is	O
divided	O
into	O
a	O
number	O
of	O
semantic	O
fields	O
closely	O
related	O
to	O
major	O
nodes	O
in	O
the	O
semantic	O
network	O
:	O
Ort	O
,	O
or	O
"	O
location	O
"	O
,	O
Körper	O
,	O
or	O
"	O
body	O
"	O
,	O
etc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
of	O
version	O
15.0	O
(	O
release	O
May	O
2020	O
)	O
,	O
GermaNet	B-Application
contains	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
All	O
GermaNet	B-Application
data	O
is	O
stored	O
in	O
a	O
PostgreSQL	B-Application
relational	B-Application
database	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
database	O
schema	O
follows	O
the	O
internal	O
structure	O
of	O
GermaNet	B-Application
:	O
there	O
are	O
tables	O
to	O
store	O
synsets	B-General_Concept
,	O
lexical	O
units	O
,	O
conceptual	O
and	O
lexical	O
relations	O
,	O
etc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
GermaNet	B-Application
data	O
is	O
distributed	O
both	O
in	O
this	O
database	O
format	O
and	O
as	O
XML	B-Protocol
files	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
XML	B-Protocol
data	O
,	O
two	O
types	O
of	O
files	O
,	O
one	O
for	O
synsets	B-General_Concept
and	O
the	O
other	O
for	O
relations	O
,	O
represent	O
all	O
data	O
available	O
in	O
the	O
GermaNet	B-Application
database	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
are	O
software	O
libraries	O
and	O
APIs	B-Application
available	O
for	O
Java	B-Language
,	O
Python	B-Language
,	O
JavaScript	B-Language
,	O
and	O
Perl	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
programs	O
are	O
distributed	O
under	O
free-software	B-License
licenses	I-License
and	O
provide	O
easy	O
access	O
to	O
all	O
information	O
in	O
various	O
versions	O
of	O
GermaNet	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
is	O
an	O
on-line	O
application	O
that	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
to	O
search	O
for	O
synsets	B-General_Concept
in	O
GermaNet	B-Application
,	O
explore	O
the	O
data	O
associated	O
with	O
them	O
,	O
and	O
calculate	O
the	O
semantic	O
similarity	O
of	O
pairs	O
of	O
synsets	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
features	O
visualizations	O
of	O
the	O
hypernym	O
relation	O
and	O
advanced	O
filtering	O
options	O
for	O
synset	B-General_Concept
searching	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
GermaNet	B-Application
15.0	O
(	O
released	O
May	O
2020	O
)	O
can	O
be	O
distributed	O
under	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
following	O
types	O
of	O
license	O
agreements	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
Open-de-WordNet	O
is	O
a	O
freely	O
available	O
alternative	O
to	O
GermaNet	B-Application
which	O
is	O
compatible	O
with	O
WordNet	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
GermaNet	B-Application
has	O
been	O
used	O
for	O
a	O
variety	O
of	O
applications	O
,	O
including	O
:	O
</s>
