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Introduction
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EuroWordNet is a lexical-semantic database based on WordNet. There are
wordnets for several languages, the original EuroWordNet project dealt
with Dutch, Italian, Spanish, German, French, Czech, and Estonian. See
https://www.illc.uva.nl/EuroWordNet for description of the
corresponding European resources and development project.


The eurowordnets are structured the same way as the Princeton wordnet
for English (see https://wordnet.princeton.edu/). 
The main unit is synset (set of synonymous
words). Synsets are linked with semantic relations to each other, and
with Inter-Lingual Index to the Princeton wordnet.

The EuroWordNet format is defined by the Database Editor Polaris (see
https://www.illc.uva.nl/EuroWordNet/database.html). The Polaris tool
enables to export and import wordnet files in a certain text format,
the aim of 
this Eurown module is to parse and write these files, and to apply
other operations on wordnets and synsets in them.