extJWNL (Extended Java WordNet Library) is a Java API for creating, reading and updating dictionaries in WordNet format. extJWNL is an upgraded version of JWNL. The library was improved and now features support for:

• creating, editing and writing dictionaries
• encodings, including UTF-8
• Java generics
• huge dictionaries
• instance dictionaries and static singletone dictionary
• Maven
• ewn: command-line tool to browse, create and edit dictionaries in WordNet format
• and more

extJWNL is an open source library written in Java and licensed under BSD license (see license.txt).

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extJWNL is accompanied with JavaDocs, extJWNL Wiki, and extJWNL forums where you can ask for improvements and submit bugs.

This refactoring was done as a part of work on GeoWordNet in KnowDive group.