lexiconkor

Lexiconkor is an open-source framework and database for multilingual lexical resources and semantic networks. It provides a standardized data model for lexical entries, senses, parts of speech, etymology, frequency, and provenance, with support for semantic relations such as synonymy, antonymy, hypernymy, and collocations. The project aims to facilitate interoperability among language resources by offering a graph-based schema, RESTful APIs, and export formats including JSON-LD, RDF, and CSV. Lexiconkor originated in a cooperative effort among linguists and NLP developers to address fragmentation across language lexicons and to enable cross-lingual alignment of lexical entries.

The system components include a lexicon editor, validation and curation tools, and a query engine capable of semantic similarity ranking and cross-lingual alignment tasks. It emphasizes extensibility through pluggable backends and language-specific modules, and it can be integrated with established resources such as WordNet, Open Multilingual Wordnet, and local lexicons. Licensing is open source with governance designed to encourage community contributions while maintaining quality controls and documentation.

Lexiconkor supports use in linguistic research, language documentation, educational applications, and NLP pipelines such as machine translation and information retrieval. Data provenance is tracked to document sources, edits, and editorial decisions, helping researchers assess reliability. While cross-lingual alignment remains challenging in low-resource languages, Lexiconkor provides a common framework to share, compare, and evolve lexical data across languages.