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Hardcopy

George A. Miller (1995). WordNet: A Lexical Database for English.
Communications of the ACM Vol. 38, No. 11: 39-41.

Christiane Fellbaum (1998, ed.) WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database (citation above) is available from MIT Press.

Online

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Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.