简介:ThispaperdiscribesadatarepresentationforWordNet2.1basedonWebOntologyLanguage(OWL).ThemaincomponentsofWordNetdatabasearetransformedasclassesinOWL,andtherelationsbetweensynsetsorlexcialwordsaretransformedasOWLproperties.OurconversionisbasedonthedatafileofWordNetinsteadofthePrologdatabase.ThisworkcanbeusedtoenrichtheworkinprogressofstandardconversionofWordNettotheRDF/OWLrepresentationatW3C.